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.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    One of the few benefits that Twitter used to have was how useful it was for breaking news and events.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, it was very useful at getting hot takes, misinformation, sensationalist and outsourced soundbites. It still useful for that, but now there is more unchecked nazism.