Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation

[robosmith]

Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation

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While all major world events are now accompanied almost instantly by a deluge of disinformation aimed at controlling the narrative, the scale and speed at which disinformation was being seeded about the Israel-Hamas conflict is unprecedented—particularly on X.

Boosted by the algorithm that promotes users willing to pay X $8 a month for a premium subscription, posts from those with a blue checkmark shot to the top of news feeds for people seeking information about the conflict.

Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attack and images of firework celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas. There were faked pictures of soccer superstar Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag, while a 3-year-old video from the Syrian civil war repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend.

Many of these videos and images racked up hundreds of thousands of views and engagements. While some later featured a note from X’s decimated community fact-checking system, many more remained untouched. And as Elon Musk has repeatedly done in recent incidents, the platform’s CEO made the situation much worse.

"Elon Musk’s changes to the platform work entirely to the benefit of terrorists and war propagandists,” Emerson Brooking, a researcher at the Atlantic Council Digital Forensics Research Lab, tells WIRED. “Changes in profit and incentive structure mean that there’s a lot more tendency for people to share at high volume information which may not be true because they are trying to maximize view counts. Anyone can buy one of those little blue checks and change their profile picture to something that’s seemingly a media outlet. It takes quite a bit of work to vet who’s telling the truth and who’s not.”

X, which eliminated its entire PR team last year, responded to WIRED’s request for comment on the proliferation of disinformation on its platform with the automated message: “Busy now, please check back later.” 

Musk's play toy certainly gives him much more power than he can manage responsibly. ?

[Rebound]

Musk very likely funded his Twitter acquisition with billions in Qatari oil money. Thats why he won’t take down fake news.  

[Legato]

33 minutes ago, Rebound said:

Musk very likely funded his Twitter acquisition with billions in Qatari oil money. Thats why he won’t take down fake news.  

He also stole Thor's hammer.

[Rebound]

55 minutes ago, Legato said:

He also stole Thor's hammer.

I speak the truth. Saudis and Qatar put billions into Musk’s purchase of Twitter.

 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-twitter-2022-10-07/#:~:text=Musk's %2433.5 billion equity commitment,Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover

Edited October 12, 2023 by Rebound

[Legato]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

I speak the truth. Saudis and Qatar put billions into Musk’s purchase of Twitter.

 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-twitter-2022-10-07/#:~:text=Musk's %2433.5 billion equity commitment,Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover

Yes my mistake.. it was Loki's staff.

[robosmith]

Hamas Seeds Violent Videos on Sites With Little Moderation

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Since Hamas launched a deadly cross-border attack into Israel over the weekend, violent videos and graphic images have flooded social media. Many of the posts have been seeded by Hamas to terrorize civilians and take advantage of the lack of content moderation on some social media sites — particularly X and Telegram — according to a Hamas official and social media experts.

The strategy mirrors efforts by extremist groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, which took advantage of the lack of guardrails at social media companies years ago to upload graphic footage to the internet. Social media companies reacted then by removing and banning accounts tied to those groups.

The issue has sprouted anew in the past week, particularly on X, where safety and content moderation teams have largely disbanded under Elon Musk’s ownership, and on Telegram, the messaging platform which does virtually no content moderation. 

 

[Rebound]

10 hours ago, Legato said:

Yes my mistake.. it was Loki's staff.

It’s ok to be wrong sometimes. 

[CdnFox]

14 hours ago, Legato said:

He also stole Thor's hammer.

AND the cadbury secret. The man has no shame.

[CdnFox]

13 hours ago, Rebound said:

I speak the truth. Saudis and Qatar put billions into Musk’s purchase of Twitter.

 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-twitter-2022-10-07/#:~:text=Musk's %2433.5 billion equity commitment,Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover

Yeah  nobody's buying any of this crap.

All musk did was take out the left-wing-friendly filtering algorithms.  It is not twitter's job to police the truth.  People post what they want, and people are going to have to learn to do their own fact checking and not live in their comfy little echo chambers.

As to media - it's ALWAYS been about fake news.  Over 100 years ago Twain said "if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed. If you DO read the newspaper you're misinformed".

[Rebound]

11 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Yeah  nobody's buying any of this crap.

All musk did was take out the left-wing-friendly filtering algorithms.  It is not twitter's job to police the truth.  People post what they want, and people are going to have to learn to do their own fact checking and not live in their comfy little echo chambers.

As to media - it's ALWAYS been about fake news.  Over 100 years ago Twain said "if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed. If you DO read the newspaper you're misinformed".

How do people do fact checking? Use Twitter? 

[robosmith]

4 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Yeah  nobody's buying any of ⏬this crap.

All musk did was take out the left-wing-friendly filtering algorithms. 

You should watch Frontline if you WANT to know the truth.

In FACT Musk repeatedly changed the rules and DOES NOT personally observe them. AKA huge HYPOCRITE.

[CdnFox]

9 minutes ago, robosmith said:

You should watch Frontline if you WANT to know the truth.

In FACT Musk repeatedly changed the rules and DOES NOT personally observe them. AKA huge HYPOCRITE.

Video unavailable.  LOL.

Well. I guess that says it all doesn't it.

[Nationalist]

5 hours ago, Rebound said:

How do people do fact checking? Use Twitter? 

There is no Twitter.

This is just another example of the Libbies trying desperately to censor people they don't agree with. They call it "disinformation" or the new one, "malinformation".

All that means is whatever they don't like, is bad and should be taken down.

Edited October 13, 2023 by Nationalist

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

Video unavailable.  LOL.

Well. I guess that says it all doesn't it.

Works fine if you know what you're doing:

[robosmith]

56 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

There is no Twitter.

This is just another example of the Libbies trying desperately to censor people they don't agree with. They call it "disinformation" or the new one, "malinformation".

All that means is whatever they don't like is demonstrably false, is bad and should be taken down.

ftfy... STOP LYING.

[CdnFox]

13 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Works fine if you know what you're doing:

Seeing as his didn't work i guess he didn't know what he was doing

[Nationalist]

39 minutes ago, robosmith said:

ftfy... STOP LYING.

Up yours. I stand for freedom of speech. Even yours. You however...are a true hypocrite.

[robosmith]

49 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Seeing as his didn't work i guess he didn't know what he was doing

No, that was YOU whom I quoted. Duh

20 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Up yours. I stand for freedom of speech. Even yours. You however...are a true hypocrite.

Yes, we know what you stand for.... repetitive defenses of FRAUD. AKA, mis/dis information on X NOW.

[Nationalist]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

No, that was YOU whom I quoted. Duh

Yes, we know what you stand for.... repetitive defenses of FRAUD. AKA, mis/dis information on X NOW.

Ur such a fembot...

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

No, that was YOU whom I quoted. Duh

 

But it was him who posted the link that didin't work. So - not my fault.    And you're thinking too much -your'e drooling again

 

[WestCanMan]

@robosmith: Millions of people add posts to X every hour, and it's hard to police it all. For sure some disinformation makes it there and it's hard to get it down on the same day. Especially with leftists sharing it as fast as they can.

CNN intentionally posts their own disinformation, and sometimes they push their lies for years, as with collusion. 

Also, FB and Twitter actively blocked the truth from the sites regarding the BSL4 lab and Hunter's laptop.

Your thread seems cool, but you're trying to get people to look past the elephant in the room to see a mouse. 

[robosmith]

11 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Video unavailable.  LOL.

Well. I guess that says it all doesn't it.

6 hours ago, CdnFox said:

But it was him who posted the link that didin't work. So - not my fault.    And you're thinking too much -your'e drooling again

 

You're confused. It was you who said the video link didn't work and didn't know what you're doing, per post above. Duh

 

 

[robosmith]

5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

@robosmith: Millions of people add posts to X every hour, and it's hard to police it all. For sure some disinformation makes it there and it's hard to get it down on the same day. Especially with leftists sharing it as fast as they can.

You're just making excuses for the FACT that X has eliminated most of it's moderation staff.

 

5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

CNN intentionally posts their own disinformation, and sometimes they push their lies for years, as with collusion. 

Collusion is a FACT per the Senate Intel committee report.

5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Also, FB and Twitter actively blocked the truth from the sites regarding the BSL4 lab and Hunter's laptop.

The truth as YOU SEE IT. The actual truth is still a matter of debate.

AKA, no KNOWN chain of custody for the laptop that was ILLEGALLY LEAKED.

5 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Your thread seems cool, but you're trying to get people to look past the elephant in the room to see a mouse. 

Only you believes it's a "mouse." Probably because you don't know what Musk has been doing at X.

Watch the Frontline video and be informed.

[CdnFox]

8 hours ago, robosmith said:

You're confused. I

I"m afraid it's you who's confused.  The link very clearly doesn't work and says so. This is what people see -  you screwed up the link and now you're trying to pretend you didnt Freakin' hilarious

 Maybe it's your brain that's unavailable  

You got it right the second time - but you effed up the first one and you still can't figure it out   That's why people laughed at my comment about it being unavailable.

Edited October 14, 2023 by CdnFox

[robosmith]

Elon Musk’s X removes the New York Times’ verification badge

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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from X owner Elon Musk.

The unexplained decision removes the only symbol distinguishing the news organization from impostors and comes amid a flood of false information related to the Israel-Gaza war, some of which Musk has personally endorsed.

The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. X has hosted and helped amplify a flood of false information related to the Israel-Gaza war, some of which Musk has personally endorsed.

The move further extends Musk’s attempts to use the social media company he bought with claims of defending free speech to undercut news organizations he dislikes. It also suggests Musk has adopted the kinds of secretive social media tactics he and Twitter’s conservative critics once loudly denounced. 

"Free" speech as long as it doesn't contradict Musk. ?