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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] TwilightVulpine 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year 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 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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