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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6589988

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation::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.

  • foksmash@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    The article seems like a hit piece for having to pay for Twitter. If it’s that important to use it, pay the money. Otherwise, like goes on just fine without the platform.

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Disinformation about Israel is practically all anyone ever sees.

    Consider that there are less than 16 million Jews in the world, and 475 million Arabs/ 2 Billion Muslims.

    In this conflict that’s largely viewed as Jewish vs Arab or Jewish versus Muslim, Jewish voices are drowned out by either 30:1 or 125:1.

    Israel is the only country in the region where lesbian Muslim woman can wear what she wants, vote, live in peace, and become an elected official.

    But when you have 30:1 voices in the world making bullshit claims of apartheid, posting misleading infographics, and generally creating an atmosphere of overwhelming 1-sided sentiment it’s really easy to see why Israel is vilified.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if Lemmy has a better track record for misinfo than 2018 Twitter. Or even… Pre-2016 twitter. Gosh twitter has been shit for so long. Anyway. Do we have a news community that makes strides to be perfectly correct? I bet a lot of people would hate posting and commenting there lol.