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The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)

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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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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a great timeline .... 99% of the planet relies on megalomaniac morons, mega corporations, billionaires and for profit media corporations for all their information.

Same as it ever was

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

A 100 years ago you got your morning paper that can give you a set of tainted views, because you had no chance to independently check, what is going on on the other side of the world. Now you got Fox news and others shoving down the propaganda narrative with a different set of "experts" 24/7.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And newspapers used to be full of lies on purpose to sell more copies.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I thought this was gonna be Dewey beats Truman or something but this is for more interesting.

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