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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately my friends use tiktok as their primary source so I can't give them to much credit.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems...significantly worse.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Haha yep. I've heard them describe events and I have to stop them and say "do you really think it happened like that?" Then pull up Wikipedia and go through the events filling in the important context that their tiktok conveniently left out.

But everytime I do this i think they trust tiktok less.