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.
Maybe it’s not a good idea to use a media platform run by a megalomaniac moron as a primary source of news and information.
a media platform run by a megalomaniac moron
The one with a rocket program. Oh wait…
It’s a great timeline … 99% of the planet relies on megalomaniac morons, mega corporations, billionaires and for profit media corporations for all their information.
And we wonder why there is so much misinformation, disinformation, non information and covered up information everywhere.
It’s definitely the information age … expect no one said it would actually keep us informed or have any benefit to humanity.
It’s a great timeline … 99% of the planet relies on megalomaniac morons, mega corporations, billionaires and for profit media corporations for all their information.
Same as it ever was
A 100 years ago you got your morning paper that can give you a set of tainted views, because you had no chance to independently check, what is going on on the other side of the world. Now you got Fox news and others shoving down the propaganda narrative with a different set of “experts” 24/7.
Oh no, it’s DEFINITELY the informarion age. The truth is out there.
There’s just no money to be made with hard work and actual journalism.
Fair, but this article is talking about primary information from people who are actually there and small local news outlets being drowned out by misinformation. A lot of primary information in 2023 comes from social media which is then investigated and fact checked by larger and more reputable news outlets before being reported.
So yes, the average person who just wants to know what’s happening should not be getting that info from social media but reporters often have to. Changes to Twitter since musk took over (specifically paid blue check marks and the removal of titles from links) have made the process of sifting through the misinformation and disinformation exponentially harder, even for people who do it for a living like the researcher in the article.
It’s not just TwitX, there’s a bunch on Lemmy and Reddit feeds too
At this point Hexbear is essentially co-opted by astroturfing terrorists
What the fuck does this even mean?
Co-opted??? Moron, get your anti-left propaganda right lol.
Words have actual meanings
divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one.
The 12 year old loser 4channers that thought (probably still think) saying the ‘n’ word is hilarious, turned into 25 year old fascists that think “nihilism” means “make life shitty for everyone else.”
Who are you talking about right now? Hexbear? Is your basis for who is a fascist just that they are rude to liberals on the internet and have intense feelings about capitalism and imperialism?
Can’t co-opt something when the same people founded it.
You think terrorists started hexbear?
The greatest moron in the world.
as long as he’s #1 in your thoughts, he can sleep… a kind of sleep anyway…
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.
More like: we’re all in for a bad time.
Unfortunately, their inability to discern fantasy from reality does not only affect them.
Sometimes, the fantasy is presented in a credible manner. That’s the hook.
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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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I think another big issue is that there are a lot of news outlets that get their info from those three sources.
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):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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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.
In fairness… People who turn to twitter for news aren’t the type of people that generally like to be informed by reality.
X is the new toilet of the internet. Go X yourself
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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.
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away
Stay away way way wa
Chamber … Chamber … ^Chamber
It certainly became worse, but it’s not like it was good before him.
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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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.”
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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.
Yeah, it kind of looks like the author of the article forgot to fill in their placeholder during proofreading.
HBO destroyed their brand with “Max”, and Elon was like “hold my beer, I’ll make the single dumbest and most confusing brand decision in the history of business.”
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.
