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.

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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Who are these articles for because everyone I know has always had the opinion that Twitter is full of dumb takes and misinfo

    • ripcord@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Millions and millions of people who are still using it as their primary info source.

      Good that you apparently don’t know any of them, but the number of people who actually stopped using TwitX or use it less appears to be shockingly small.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

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

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
            4·
            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.