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.

  • lolcatnipEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    You think people who are organized are gonna all use the same instance to make themselves easy to get rid of?

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      So what? It’s a numbers game per server, then. Far better to splinter in to well managed subnets than can ban troglodytes than fester as a giant cess pool like Twitter X.

      It’s not perfect, but only fucking morons give up something better than nothing in persuit of a perfect that cannot happen on services that are publicly signed up for. Speaking of, Lemmy instances can go invite only or approval only, so no, those subnets won’t have to constantly churn trolls.