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.
If you’re getting your information from facebook, twitter or fox news (to name a few top offenders) you’re in for a bad time.
And if a significant enough portion of the people are getting their information from those sources, we’re all in for a bad time.
I think another big issue is that there are a lot of news outlets that get their info from those three sources.
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When Bank of America announced 0% downpayment loans for people living in red lined communities with an abnormally low home value, Reddit was flooded with posts saying “BoA is giving better loans to black people” completely ignoring that the loans had no race qualifications. All it takes is one poorly summarized post and the whole site starts screaming nonsense.
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That’s not a fair assessment. A lot of news outlets get their info from social media like Twitter so, even if you’re not getting it directly from there, it’s very likely that you’re still getting information from there.
Hard enough to get unbiased reporting at the best of times.
Every media outlet picked sides on this a long time ago.
X is a far-right nazi sympathizing website. Advertisers should have pulled their products a year ago
Assume companies that advertise on Xitter to be NAZI sympathizers.
Xitler the X is pronounced like “sh”
Ah! I was pronouncing it like “Nah Tzi Web-Site”
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There are some good sources on YouTube like Crash Course. The problem is when people get their information from posts or channels that are not peer reviewed.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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People who have turned to X for breaking news
Maybe they shouldn’t
One of the few benefits that Twitter used to have was how useful it was for breaking news and events.
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.
Good thing you figured out how to get your hot takes elsewhere.
Or, here me out for a second, I figured that I shouldn’t rely on hot takes to get my information.
At this point the Onion has more accurate news than X
They have always had more accurate news than the mainstream media, they just have a roundabout way of giving it.
X is the new toilet of the internet. Go X yourself
Don’t you mean, go xit yourself.
In fairness… People who turn to twitter for news aren’t the type of people that generally like to be informed by reality.
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It certainly became worse, but it’s not like it was good before him.
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I disagree with the headline, the war is not causing disinformation. Its bad faith users posting disinformation and ~~X’s ~~ (nope still calling it Twitter) policies that not only let it happen but encourage it.
I go with Xitter, or “porn site X.com.”
Honestly I blame the news orgs for this.
There are a ton of videos floating around that ARE credible. They simply aren’t getting reported on in a meaningful way. If they do get mentioned, it’s often in an extremely watered down manner that almost feels intentionally misleading.
You also have videos that are 100 percent verifiable (or the protest videos) that are only being reported on by a few organizations, often leaving out important context.
If the mainstream media refuses to truly engage in the situation, then people will turn to dubious sources.
I mean, that’s just the other side of the same coin. They need good info to dig through, and they need to actually dig. Both are required for actual journalism, and both don’t work under capitalism. There’s too much money in lies, and it’s expensive to fight them in the first place.
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Imagine clicking on a video thinking it’s footage of current events and it’s from a game.
Imagine not being at all media-savvy and buying into it. MAGA types are idiot shitheads who are completely driven by their emotions. There’s no higher function.
If you went to Twitter pre-Musk for your news you’re still a moron.
It was the social media of choice for journalists. It was an excellent place to get your news as long as you followed the right people (reputable, credible professionals).
Now many of those right people have left and they’re far more difficult to distinguish from the wrong people.
Agreed. I didn’t use Twitter, but friends followed NPR correspondents for information and, while it didn’t replace the news, it enhanced it for them.
It actually had some credibility before. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but it did have some credibility. Not so much now.
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I’ve been wondering when pages would drop the “formerly Twitter” clarifier.
From the article:
But users of X (formerly Twitter)
Not yet.
