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Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla allowed racial harassment of its Black employees to run rampant at its Fremont, Calif., plant and retaliated against some workers who complained, the federal agency charged with enforcing civil rights laws alleged in a lawsuit Thursday.

 

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Is anyone surprised?

 

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation

 

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.
 

“For many reasons, this is the hardest time I’ve ever had covering a crisis on here,” Justin Peden, an OSINT researcher from Alabama known online as the Intel Crab, posted on X. “Credible links are now photos. On the ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expensive blue check mark. Xenophobic goons are boosted by the platform’s CEO. End times, folks.”

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6 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Is anyone surprised?

 

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation

 

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.
 

“For many reasons, this is the hardest time I’ve ever had covering a crisis on here,” Justin Peden, an OSINT researcher from Alabama known online as the Intel Crab, posted on X. “Credible links are now photos. On the ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expensive blue check mark. Xenophobic goons are boosted by the platform’s CEO. End times, folks.”

 

So...no different than before Musk...

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22 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

So...no different than before Musk...

Reading is fundamental:

 

When Peden covered the escalation in Gaza in 2021, the sources he was seeing in his feed were from people on the ground or credible news agencies. This weekend, he says, verified content or primary sources were virtually impossible to find on X.

 

“It’s getting incredibly hard to find people that actually live in Palestine or in southern Israel,” Peden tells WIRED. “It’s been incredibly hard to find their preliminary information and share their videos and photos. You have this perfect storm where on the ground, preliminary sources are not being amplified, especially those that maybe don’t speak English, which is a large majority of users in that area.”

 

Boosted by the algorithm that promotes users willing to pay X $8 a month for a premium subscription, posts from those with a blue checkmark shot to the top of news feeds for people seeking information about the conflict.

 

Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attackand images of firework celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas. There were faked pictures of soccer superstar Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag, while a three-year-old video from the Syrian civil war repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend.”

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26 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Reading is fundamental:

 

When Peden covered the escalation in Gaza in 2021, the sources he was seeing in his feed were from people on the ground or credible news agencies. This weekend, he says, verified content or primary sources were virtually impossible to find on X.

 

“It’s getting incredibly hard to find people that actually live in Palestine or in southern Israel,” Peden tells WIRED. “It’s been incredibly hard to find their preliminary information and share their videos and photos. You have this perfect storm where on the ground, preliminary sources are not being amplified, especially those that maybe don’t speak English, which is a large majority of users in that area.”

 

Boosted by the algorithm that promotes users willing to pay X $8 a month for a premium subscription, posts from those with a blue checkmark shot to the top of news feeds for people seeking information about the conflict.

 

Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attackand images of firework celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas. There were faked pictures of soccer superstar Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag, while a three-year-old video from the Syrian civil war repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend.”

 

So is trusting the source.

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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

and you're the one to talk about trust....


Here’s how you evaluate the credibility of a source:

 

Does it support MAGA propaganda?

Yes: This is a trustworthy source

No: Impossibly biased and obviously made up 

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Just now, ChiGoose said:


Here’s how you evaluate the credibility of a source:

 

Does it support MAGA propaganda?

Yes: This is a trustworthy source

No: Impossibly biased and obviously made up 

he just admitted outright that he's not a doc while claiming that I'm not either.  He's not to be trusted but we all knew that....

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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

he just admitted outright that he's not a doc while claiming that I'm not either.  He's not to be trusted but we all knew that....


Yeah, this is why I try to just engage people on what they say instead of who they say there are or my preconceived notions of who they might be. 

Then again, I was a bit concerned about the possibility of a doctor out there who has a really hard time reading…

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1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:


Yeah, this is why I try to just engage people on what they say instead of who they say there are or my preconceived notions of who they might be. 

Then again, I was a bit concerned about the possibility of a doctor out there who has a really hard time reading…

or that is a far right ideologue.  thankfully, they're pretty rare in medicine and getting more rare.

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21 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

Nihilism as a cover for willful ignorance must be fun. 

 

LOL!  Oh, the hypocrisy!

 

Sorry, fool me once with the "fact checkers" and "believe me when I tell you this" on the internet...

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1 minute ago, Doc said:

 

LOL!  Oh, the hypocrisy!

 

Sorry, fool me once with the "fact checkers" and "believe me when I tell you this" on the internet...

you have zero credibility.  why not just slither away?

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2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

you have zero credibility.  why not just slither away?

 

You're on my board.  You only began defiling this place recently.  Same for ChiGoose.

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6 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

You're on my board.  You only began defiling this place recently.  Same for ChiGoose.

you're a liar.  nuf said.  too bad someone unequivocally proved it.  who are you really?  I'm getting basement, food stamp and medicaid vibes.

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1 minute ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

you're a liar.  nuf said.  too bad someone unequivocally proved it.

 

Right.  Must be that guy who said that Twitter has more disinformation than before...

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