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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 The problem is when people get their information from posts or channels that are not peer reviewed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I didn't mean that there isn't any good information on social media. I have spent a bunch of time watching video lectures that MITOpenCourseWare has posted on youtube.

Using social media sites as a news aggregator is like looking at the news through a filter. I think that is bad because you don't know how the filter works and you don't control the filter.