Evan Hill ✓

@evanhill · joined 23 Feb 2009

Open source and visual forensic investigations @washingtonpost.

127 502Followers

1 245Following

8 525Posts total

246.2KViews on collected posts

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Evan Hill ✓@evanhill1 Sep

Nearly half of Americans want labor unions in the U.S. to have more influence than they do today, a record high in the past quarter century, according to a new Gallup poll https://t.co/a0IroxWnPa 2.1K views · 11 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill26 Aug

someone wrote a book about the fatal perils of unlimited entertainment... 3.8K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill26 Aug

I think everyone actually has to take seriously the idea that social media and “unlimited entertainment” have in fact not created outcomes that people are happy about, even though we find them very compulsively appealing in the moment. https://t.co/qOTHsN7iUZ https://t.co/Ayrb5k 69.8K views · 967 likes · 67 reposts · 41 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill25 Aug

I tend to agree with @bigblackjacobin's point that arguments against LLMs on the basis of the public good are stronger than those made on the basis of aesthetics but it also seems like a pretty obvious false equivalence to say that someone using a human speechwriter is the same 11.4K views · 62 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill24 Aug

https://t.co/oYF5zJvCcZ 4.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill22 Aug

I think this line of thinking is mostly rooted in a 100 year old conception of the working class and a 60 year old conception of the middle class. 18.4K views · 267 likes · 15 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill31 Jul

Google immediately rolling this back, thankfully https://t.co/8nKMbnLWSJ 1.7K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill31 Jul

@evanhill @shashj This is nuts. What legitimate use case is there for inserting AI images into satellite photos. 491 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill30 Jul

So it seems Google activated its AI image generation program inside its satellite image app today (blog post here: https://t.co/z7JlLrNuB8). Very curious how or if this idea was red teamed internally because the opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless. 45.6K views · 586 likes · 175 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill20 Jun 2025

@evanhill Hey Evan.. First of all Pulitzer prizes are worthless They give them out to people who are part of the whole Russian hoax and the New York times got one so worthless bro.. 55 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill5 May 2025

We are also honored to have been finalists in international reporting for our coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and the devastation of Gaza; that reporting will go on as we continue to document ground truth and attempt to hold perpetrators to account. 2.3K views · 18 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Evan Hill ✓@evanhill5 May 2025

Honored today to win alongside many talented Post colleagues a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, for our coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, including a 3D reconstruction showing why Secret Service snipers couldn't see the gunman https://t.co/7ACand8dcs 86.2K views · 117 likes · 4 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views4 163this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.27%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.80%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 163	5 983	0.70×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.27%	1.49%	2.19×
Engagement rate	0.80%	0.93%	0.86×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

86.2K5 May

2.3K

5520 Jun

45.6K30 Jul

49131 Jul

1.7K

18.4K22 Aug

4.2K24 Aug

11.4K25 Aug

69.8K26 Aug

3.8K

2.1K1 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.18%5 May

0.99%

1.82%20 Jun

1.72%30 Jul

2.04%31 Jul

0.52%

1.55%22 Aug

0.14%24 Aug

0.64%25 Aug

1.57%26 Aug

0.26%

0.80%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes78.6%2 059 in total

Reposts10.5%274 in total

Replies4.1%107 in total

Quotes1.3%35 in total

Bookmarks5.5%143 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.