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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago by HipPriest@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

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[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

People who have turned to X for breaking news

Maybe they shouldn't

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of the few benefits that Twitter used to have was how useful it was for breaking news and events.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was very useful at getting hot takes, misinformation, sensationalist and outsourced soundbites. It still useful for that, but now there is more unchecked nazism.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good thing you figured out how to get your hot takes elsewhere.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 8 months ago

Or, here me out for a second, I figured that I shouldn't rely on hot takes to get my information.