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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."
https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/
@ADignorantium Why the fuck people rely on social media for news, baffles the mind. With so many credible news sources, and apps out there, why do people keep getting sucked into what they read on social media?
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“It’s getting incredibly hard to find people that actually live in Palestine or in southern Israel,” Peden tells WIRED
even when switching to a server in Israel via VPN it's still hard to get actual users in the area - you still get all the eejit blue check accounts showing who are no where near the country