If you're getting your information from facebook, twitter or fox news (to name a few top offenders) you're in for a bad time.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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And if a significant enough portion of the people are getting their information from those sources, we're all in for a bad time.
I think another big issue is that there are a lot of news outlets that get their info from those three sources.
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X is a far-right nazi sympathizing website. Advertisers should have pulled their products a year ago
Assume companies that advertise on Xitter to be NAZI sympathizers.
People who have turned to X for breaking news
Maybe they shouldn't
One of the few benefits that Twitter used to have was how useful it was for breaking news and events.
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X is the new toilet of the internet. Go X yourself
Don't you mean, go xit yourself.
At this point the Onion has more accurate news than X
They have always had more accurate news than the mainstream media, they just have a roundabout way of giving it.
In fairness… People who turn to twitter for news aren’t the type of people that generally like to be informed by reality.
It certainly became worse, but it's not like it was good before him.
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away from that echo chamber
Stay away from that echo chamber
I disagree with the headline, the war is not causing disinformation. Its bad faith users posting disinformation and ~~X's ~~ (nope still calling it Twitter) policies that not only let it happen but encourage it.
I go with Xitter, or "porn site X.com."
Honestly I blame the news orgs for this.
There are a ton of videos floating around that ARE credible. They simply aren't getting reported on in a meaningful way. If they do get mentioned, it's often in an extremely watered down manner that almost feels intentionally misleading.
You also have videos that are 100 percent verifiable (or the protest videos) that are only being reported on by a few organizations, often leaving out important context.
If the mainstream media refuses to truly engage in the situation, then people will turn to dubious sources.
I mean, that's just the other side of the same coin. They need good info to dig through, and they need to actually dig. Both are required for actual journalism, and both don't work under capitalism. There's too much money in lies, and it's expensive to fight them in the first place.
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If you went to Twitter pre-Musk for your news you're still a moron.
It was the social media of choice for journalists. It was an excellent place to get your news as long as you followed the right people (reputable, credible professionals).
Now many of those right people have left and they're far more difficult to distinguish from the wrong people.
Agreed. I didn't use Twitter, but friends followed NPR correspondents for information and, while it didn't replace the news, it enhanced it for them.
It actually had some credibility before. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it did have some credibility. Not so much now.
Oh no, please tell me this isn't true. Surely the well balanced and entirely rational Mr. Musk wouldn't let this happen?
Who are these articles for because everyone I know has always had the opinion that Twitter is full of dumb takes and misinfo
Millions and millions of people who are still using it as their primary info source.
Good that you apparently don't know any of them, but the number of people who actually stopped using TwitX or use it less appears to be shockingly small.
Yeah unfortunately my friends use tiktok as their primary source so I can't give them to much credit.
That seems...significantly worse.
Haha yep. I've heard them describe events and I have to stop them and say "do you really think it happened like that?" Then pull up Wikipedia and go through the events filling in the important context that their tiktok conveniently left out.
But everytime I do this i think they trust tiktok less.
I wonder how long people are going to keep calling it X
Twitter or shitter don't help this baby claim a precious letter
The site has tons of it.
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