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

submitted 11 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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[-] phx@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

It's not just TwitX, there's a bunch on Lemmy and Reddit feeds too

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

At this point Hexbear is essentially co-opted by astroturfing terrorists

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Can't co-opt something when the same people founded it.

[-] conductor@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

You think terrorists started hexbear?

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