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. www.wired.com/story/x-isra... - ThreadSky

travisview.bsky.social • 585 days ago

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/

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karmauncensored.bsky.social•584 days ago

I’ve been sticking to legit news sources for everything. I don’t believe anything I read on X anymore unless I or someone I know has vetted it first. Musk has made it a haven of disinformation over there. I come here for a reprieve.

heksenhaus.bsky.social•584 days ago

it's well and truly horrifying, somehow worse than i even expected.

truet.bsky.social•584 days ago

As intended by its owner & his paymasters

density.bsky.social•584 days ago

welcome to the internet

barmzzz.bsky.social•584 days ago

Srsly, where are leftists even getting their info if they don't already have connections?

barmzzz.bsky.social•584 days ago

Like I'm just seeing the wildest claims backed by...absolutely nothing

bennevis.bsky.social•580 days ago

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Any one who keeps an eye on UK politics knows BBC is a cesspit

Search for information on why the BBC is publishing misinformation

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Search Gov. 🟰 screeds of official propaganda
Nothing contradictory❓

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drunkenpanda.bsky.social•585 days ago

If you turn to X for (breaking) news you deserve nothing else.
If I shove a stick of dynamite up my bum and light it I cannot complain if it explodes.

fizzlebah.bsky.social•584 days ago

I joined twitter for fire and emergency information a few years ago and it was a fantastic platform for me to find reliable info/accounts. Now those folks are on several platforms and its near impossible for me to know what i needed/wanted to know.

drunkenpanda.bsky.social•584 days ago

True. Back then Twitter was great, especially for this.

forevernever.bsky.social•584 days ago

video game footage?

divebender.bsky.social•584 days ago

Arma.

The same thing was done during the first months of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine too.

cheekyboinc.bsky.social•584 days ago

X ist damit wohl nun wirklich Geschichte

rhruthe.bsky.social•584 days ago

You phrased the first sentence in a weird way.
Shouldn't it read "People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict should be hit"?

joelsftw.bsky.social•584 days ago

AGAIN not at all surprised. Twitter turned to absolute cuss when he got it.

mikevlasic.bsky.social•584 days ago

Happens in every conflict, with propaganda from both sides. Happens with the Ukraine war, too.
It's very difficult to believe much of anything out there, especially on Twitter.

mikeyj79.bsky.social•584 days ago

It’s near unusable now.
Which sucks. Time comes for all things I guess.

leftoidsadhu.bsky.social•584 days ago

Who have turned to what?

maryhartmanx2.bsky.social•584 days ago

to Elmo it’s all just a big joke

catincognito.bsky.social•584 days ago

He's a Russian asset

dappergander.bsky.social•584 days ago

it's almost shocking this tweet is still up

johnlaroe.bsky.social•584 days ago

TBF: can one "drown" a dead rat?

alphwilliams.bsky.social•584 days ago

Thanks for this Travis!

mlamb.bsky.social•584 days ago

It’s a travesty this anti democracy propagandaist continues to get US government contracts.

needleroozer.bsky.social•584 days ago

It's a travesty that it's taking Boeing so damn long to get their capsule working. Once SpaceX has some competition I sure as hell hope NASA drops them like a hot potato.

daswasdavesagt.bsky.social•584 days ago

No shit.

ishtar.bsky.social•585 days ago

Yeah that's absolutely true. I clicked on it and the first story I saw was alleging Israel had "nuked Palestine." 😐 (FAKE) I mean what the hell right?

Obvious That's incredibly stupid, but like it's just filled with that crap.

I guess that's why I'm here. Twitter became a cesspool of right-wingers

tetonkali.bsky.social•584 days ago

No a cesspool of circle jerking pool of idiots devoid of a functional brain..

tetonkali.bsky.social•584 days ago

Oh I guess that is the definition of Right Winger, but I do like to define my terms so everyone is on the same page. 😜

ishtar.bsky.social•584 days ago

Well, I put your definition into a calculator and then I divided it by the term right-winger, and the result was one. So I'm guessing they are the same lol

tetonkali.bsky.social•584 days ago

👍

jacobdrj.bsky.social•584 days ago

Yeah... Xwitter isn't really a news source of note...

Not really sure who is right now...

needleroozer.bsky.social•584 days ago

AP, NPR.

jacobdrj.bsky.social•584 days ago

AP is a little spotty... But certainly worth using...

NPR is great, but hyper-USA centric (which it should be)... I used to listen to them while doing the dishes, but I've been out of the US for 3 years, the nuance of Congress isn't as interesting as it once was when I'm trying to get world news...

mjanssen.bsky.social•584 days ago

a good number of public radio stations air BBC stuff along with NPR, though maybe not in the drive-time slots

mgerver.bsky.social•584 days ago

They had a podcast called Rough Translation that did good international stories, but that got (unfortunately) cancelled.

gingerdog.bsky.social•584 days ago

X is dead. This crisis proves the site is basically worthless. Hopefully something better comes along.

garbaek.dk•584 days ago

You don't think Blue Sky is that something better ?!?

gingerdog.bsky.social•584 days ago

I hope it is. But I've hoped for that before with other apps and been disappointed 😔

garbaek.dk•584 days ago

Yeah, I feel you there! So far I can't tell this place apart from Twitter 2016 :) apart from the name, heh! So let's see, hopefully for everyone, this will be a great place!

jannisgrimm.bsky.social•584 days ago

Some advice re. these videos
https://bsky.app/profile/jannisgrimm.bsky.social/post/3kbdtoj77j72d

broncos.bsky.social•581 days ago

I don't see any community notes on this site

herbalcrone.bsky.social•585 days ago

Xitter is useless for factual information. Its ruination is criminal.

antifabae.bsky.social•584 days ago

I cant believe an asshole was allowed to do this simply because he’s rich

llgxiii.bsky.social•584 days ago

he wanted out of buying Twitter, and the old Twitter team sued him into going through with it

they left a loaded gun on the table for a four year old to find, and now we're all catchin strays

needleroozer.bsky.social•584 days ago

Welcome to capitalism.

noizeslut.bsky.social•584 days ago

Yea, I don’t rely on x as a legitimate news source lol.

derzeitreisende.bsky.social•584 days ago

The genius has fired most of the employees that would’ve handled that.

wetasspword.bsky.social•584 days ago

You see that first part is where the issue is

latinmilitaryav.bsky.social•584 days ago

Very dangerous and the guy in charge doesn't care, in fact encourages the information chaos

hobbeswasright.bsky.social•584 days ago

He is building the disinformation machine he wants for his political ambitions.

rats-and-a-cat.bsky.social•584 days ago

Could not imagine there would be a bigger shithole filled with hatred than Facebook… but here we are… i loved Twitter back then :(

pcjr.bsky.social•584 days ago

Pony Stark doesn't like Jews or Arabs, so he has no horse in this. He's just trying to hype Xhitter in the desperate sweaty hope that Visa buys more than $10 of ad space this quarter.

Please post your war stuff here for Blue Check engagement. Moral bankruptcy at it's finest.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•584 days ago

I don't know if that's completely accurate. The Saudis paid a lot of money for their disinformation machine.

pcjr.bsky.social•584 days ago

But if he's trying to benefit Saudi interests...then he'd be pro-Israel. The Saudis have been floating a larger peace with Israel in order to gain US security guarantees and Iran is a Saudi enemy as well.

But Elon also doesn't like Jews. I bet Musk is beside himself with frustration.

sasquatchewan.bsky.social•584 days ago

Uh, I can tell you as someone raised evangelical Christian that there is a certain brand of frothing anti semite that fucking LOVES Israel, explicitly because of their anti semitic beliefs

pcjr.bsky.social•584 days ago

Me? Sorry, raised Methodist, now identify as Diest.

I know just enough about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to realize I know very little. But I do believe that Palestinians are victims of both Israel and Hamas.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•584 days ago

Hamas was initially created by the Israeli government as a countermeasure against communism and the PLO. Netanyahu was recently quoted as saying that they should be funding Hamas in order to prevent Palestinian independence.

buddytalks.bsky.social•584 days ago

I’m beginning to think Elon Musk is what you get when vanity becomes pathology.

tekweenie.bsky.social•585 days ago

That tracks. 🤷‍♂️

knows.cloud•584 days ago

Dang I wish that was a surprise.

capitalismcrusher.bsky.social•584 days ago

Who could’ve seen this coming!?

paulstrobel.eu•584 days ago

Honestly: Doubt. This is about Elon’s latest changes to the platform, rather than previously unseen levels of disinformation. Ukraine War, Guardians of the Wall & other conflicts have seen similar level than before, it’s just less recognisable now. This is not a new problem 🛑

iblamestosh.bsky.social•584 days ago

Seems he's failed his mission.

needleroozer.bsky.social•584 days ago

Good, maybe they'll learn not to turn to Xitter for any news.

ralphmorgan.bsky.social•576 days ago

👎☹️😡

blubfeesh.bsky.social•584 days ago

I was on there earlier and one of the first things I saw was a post calling John Fetterman a monster for releasing like the most milquetoast middle of the road statement on the whole thing (basically "violence bad") and it immediately made me want to self immolate

razzle.bsky.social•564 days ago

Bahaha. What a schmuck. Maybe it’s time for apple and google to remove his app?

sqwabb.bsky.social•584 days ago

People will continue to turn to TwitterX as long as the majority of mainstream media outlets stay on Twitter. And where can the media go? At this point, just to Threads. Bluesky, with its door open barely a crack and with no discovery tools or account verification, is NO help here at all.

aucoinanalytics.com•584 days ago

It’s real bad over there

ddow.bsky.social•585 days ago

I didn’t see “video game footage” coming.

underlvldgaming.bsky.social•584 days ago

People use ARMA 3 footage to doctor real war footage.

whyareyoubuyingclothesatthesoup.store•585 days ago

This became common in the opening of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, lots of posts of planes blowing up in Arma III. If you look at it for more than a second it's fairly obvious, but you might not realize scrolling past it.

martinwaltherdd.bsky.social•584 days ago

You definitely notice it.

queengwenevere.bsky.social•584 days ago

That’s been happening for a while now, there’s been a lot of it especially around the Ukraine war

bjornbert.nafofellas.com•584 days ago

And that’s why we don’t use xitter

pyrholidon.bsky.social•584 days ago

The Saudis are getting their money's worth.

sagastar.bsky.social•584 days ago

yeah its just fucking unusable now

shadeygreyskies.bsky.social•584 days ago

Yet the main stream media is still addicted to posting there, & churning out articles which are nothing more than a series of regurgitated tweets, because "that's where all the news is."

And they seem unable or unwilling (or both) to comprehend that they are the ones with the power to change that.

delaney.manders.com•584 days ago

Have never seen _so far_.

Just wait for the 2024 elections.

vmcntosh.bsky.social•584 days ago

Will confirm. The biggest reason to check the platform, other than catching up with contacts who refuse to come here, is officially gone. X now worthless for breaking news.

ernaa-tweetje.bsky.social•584 days ago

I just posted it there. Couldnt agree more 🫡

mascqueerade.bsky.social•584 days ago

**Looks at camera in US Election 2024**

fyrescotch.bsky.social•584 days ago

It's all good because the accurate news is paywalled

needleroozer.bsky.social•584 days ago

That's how you know what's real. If it's free, it's fake.

sidestream.bsky.social•584 days ago

Still better than here. Sorry but it’s true.

itsmitch03.bsky.social•584 days ago

It’s sucks that he’s purposely running it into the ground. It always had its flaws but was a great resource for ppl to stay connected and know about what’s going on in the world.

basedhits.bsky.social•584 days ago

It's a hellscape there. I hope this app keeps growing. Also, please don't sell it. Lol.

miawau.bsky.social•584 days ago

Ahh all the hate gone here

smurfmasterjym.bsky.social•584 days ago

Yup.

tiomarkbrasil.bsky.social•584 days ago

There's no News on ElonMusks's heatred channel

fizzlebah.bsky.social•584 days ago

Twitter had so much to give and the folks i followed have spread out to different platforms making it so difficult to get the info i relied upon. What EM is/has done feels criminal in its intent.

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