The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation

HipPriest@kbin.social to Technology@lemmy.world – 579 points –
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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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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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