Stickin’ The Fork In It 🍴

Elon immediately suspended this account that showed Nick Sortor’s recorded call to the mental health facility was AI generated and is preventing community notes on the Sortor post. It’s all hands on deck trying to make the fake Talarico story stick https://t.co/ZA9bdpc0b5

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) October 11, 2026

And then it all went to shit, and Elmo relented:

🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment. While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS. The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful. And Talarico clearly can’t handle it. I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 11, 2026

Elmo even let Al Camino back on:

Nick Sortor's audio about James Talarico is ai generated you can recreate the tests yourself see below 👇👇👇 What I ran it through: Two independent open-source AI-voice deepfake detectors from Hugging Face: 1-MelodyMachine/Deepfake-audio-detection-V2 2-motheecreator/Deepfake-audio-detection Both are wav2vec2-based audio classifiers. Method: Extracted the audio from each MP4 with ffmpeg Resampled to 16kHz mono Ran each clip Krassenstein and Nick Sortor recordings through both models Krassenstein https://t.co/fUo2iXVl0I Sortor https://t.co/0enwrcXg9w (full clip + 5-second windows) Results:

— Al Camino™️🌊 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@lacho_ai_) October 11, 2026

Nick didn’t keep up with the news:

Kidding. More recordings from the Lindner Hope Center are about to drop in the morning. PS: James Talarico should resign and find a less stressful career

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 12, 2026

Al did, though:

It’s noon did Nick run out of Tokens to generate another fake ai call. 😂😂😂

— Al Camino™️🌊 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@lacho_ai_) October 12, 2026

Mostly it was such inside baseball, it was under the stitches:

The marching orders were sent. The assignment was understood. As usual: The mission failed. https://t.co/LODBnZROrx

— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) October 11, 2026

I don’t recognize any of those accounts (I had to look up Sorter and Camino). I haven’t seen anything from Texas Tribune about it (good for them). It might be on MS NOW (lots of hours to fill), but honestly, when Elmo relents, well… guys, you’re done.

it should alarm you how shamelessly the right can concoct desperate conspiracies in an attempt to engineer better results for their dogshit candidates and how much of their base eats the slop up. terrifying prospect for consensus reality and a functioning society. https://t.co/EhzZ2qRX0z

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) October 12, 2026

Eh. Twitter is America’s back fence. Nobody pays that much attention to it, and the worst people there suffer from megalomania. It’s why they’re there.

I'm starting to think this Nick Sortor fellow isn't on the up-and-up.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 12, 2026

I mean, now that we’ve heard of him.