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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year 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.