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.
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.
The article seems like a hit piece for having to pay for Twitter. If it's that important to use it, pay the money. Otherwise, like goes on just fine without the platform.
So censoring disinformation is bad because no one can know with 100% certainty that it’s actually disinformation or not? Isn’t there a lot of caveats here?
no one can know with 100% certainty that it’s actually disinformation
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If video or pictures are being posted that weren't shot in Israel/Gaza or have already been posted in the past, while posters imply that they are from the current conflict, then we can say with 100% certainty that this is disinformation.
I did suggest there are caveats to this premise. Your example doesn’t solve for a consumer of information being able to prove that it is disinformation in every case, and even the methods used to prove something is disinformation can potentially be flawed. I’m not arguing that disinformation doesn’t exist, because it clearly does. I’m saying that you can very rarely prove with 100% certainty that something is misinformation. Then you end up with who gets to deem what is and isn’t disinformation? These people and institutions are fallible to corruption and things can potentially be worse than they are already but this is debatable hence these discussions
I wonder if Lemmy has a better track record for misinfo than 2018 Twitter. Or even... Pre-2016 twitter. Gosh twitter has been shit for so long. Anyway. Do we have a news community that makes strides to be perfectly correct? I bet a lot of people would hate posting and commenting there lol.
Disinformation about Israel is practically all anyone ever sees.
Consider that there are less than 16 million Jews in the world, and 475 million Arabs/ 2 Billion Muslims.
In this conflict that's largely viewed as Jewish vs Arab or Jewish versus Muslim, Jewish voices are drowned out by either 30:1 or 125:1.
Israel is the only country in the region where lesbian Muslim woman can wear what she wants, vote, live in peace, and become an elected official.
But when you have 30:1 voices in the world making bullshit claims of apartheid, posting misleading infographics, and generally creating an atmosphere of overwhelming 1-sided sentiment it's really easy to see why Israel is vilified.
It’s possible both sides are full of shit. It’s what happens when one side starts using what the other side views as immoral methods. The side that feels the injustice may feel like they have no other option or even have the moral right to reciprocate. It then becomes a race to the bottom. I don’t know enough about the Jewish religion but it seems like this conflict has an eye for an eye written all over it