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X, formerly Twitter, amplifies disinformation amid the Israel-Hamas conflict
CNBC ^ | 10/9/2023 | Some clown

Posted on 10/09/2023 9:50:11 AM PDT by MrRelevant

“It’s remarkable how Elon Musk has destroyed what was perhaps the best thing about Twitter: the ability to get relatively accurate and trustworthy data in real time when there’s a crisis,” Paul Bernal, an IT law professor at the University of East Anglia in England, wrote on X on Monday."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; hamaswar; israel; rohangoswami; twitterx
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Musk bought the company because the prior owner made deals to literally amplify the governments fake news and silence opposition. The internal emails left nothing to the imagination. Black and white. It was every bit as bad folks thought. Is this guy for real?
1 posted on 10/09/2023 9:50:11 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

Of course, MSM shills are going to disparage any source of information that they don’t control.


2 posted on 10/09/2023 9:51:56 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: MrRelevant

“It’s remarkable how Elon Musk has destroyed what was perhaps the best thing about Twitter: the ability to get extremely biased Leftist lies and propaganda at all times”

Fixed it For Him. That’s what he actually meant.


3 posted on 10/09/2023 9:52:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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“Over the weekend, X flagged several posts as misleading or false, including a video purportedly showing Israeli airstrikes against Hamas in Gaza. Thousands of users saw the posts, and the most widely shared posts were flagged as misleading by the platform. Still, dozens of posts with the same video and caption were not flagged by X’s system, according to CNBC’s review.”

Dozens of posts??? Oh- the humanity!!!


4 posted on 10/09/2023 9:52:20 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MrRelevant

The lack of censorship isn’t the problem.

The Muslims are going to be hate-filled savages no matter what.


5 posted on 10/09/2023 9:52:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MrRelevant

This is a ringing endorsement for X or Twit or whatever it is called.


6 posted on 10/09/2023 9:53:00 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: MrRelevant

Are the wittle MSM feelings hurt?


7 posted on 10/09/2023 9:55:05 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: MrRelevant

Guilt by association is an old Communist and Nazi trick.


8 posted on 10/09/2023 9:55:51 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: MrRelevant

College professor, supposedly an intelligent man, doesn’t have the capacity to filter through news items, or (horror) do his own research to arrive at opinions.


9 posted on 10/09/2023 9:56:14 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: EastTexasTraveler

This from the entity that just instructed its reporters never to refer to Hamas as terrorists.


10 posted on 10/09/2023 9:57:00 AM PDT by TheConservator (Either the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State!--President Donald Trump)
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To: MrRelevant

“University of East Anglia”

The place where the climate hoax emails originated from.

Hilarious hearing one of those inbred misanthropes complaining about “disinformation”. It’s the basis of the existence.


11 posted on 10/09/2023 9:57:52 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes.com%2Fworld%2Fcbc-leaked-email-tells-reporters-not-to-use-term-terrorists-in-connection-with-israel-attacks-5506197


12 posted on 10/09/2023 9:59:35 AM PDT by TheConservator (Either the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State!--President Donald Trump)
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To: MrRelevant

“It’s remarkable how Elon Musk has destroyed what was perhaps the best thing about Twitter: the ability to get relatively accurate and trustworthy data in real time when there’s a crisis,”

ROFLOL. It was all propaganda all the time before Musk. Musk has it right, the liberals don’t like ‘freedom’.


13 posted on 10/09/2023 10:00:34 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MrRelevant

X removes the narrative the governments insist upon, and that’s what the author is lamenting, the loss of control of their narrative.

Heaven forbid the masses see the truth for themselves, and decide what they believe for themselves.


14 posted on 10/09/2023 10:04:42 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Regulator

I was just getting ready to post on that.
It’s the only thing I know of that university…


15 posted on 10/09/2023 10:05:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MrRelevant

Musk shut down a post from Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran and challenged that post on “X”.

Kiss my *ss this story is a lie.


16 posted on 10/09/2023 10:06:17 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: MrRelevant

X is eat up with StormFront types. They don’t even try to hide it.


17 posted on 10/09/2023 10:06:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: MrRelevant

“It’s remarkable how the MSM has destroyed what was perhaps the best thing about the MSM: the ability to get relatively accurate and trustworthy data in real time when there’s a crisis”


18 posted on 10/09/2023 10:09:41 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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19 posted on 10/09/2023 10:10:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: EEGator

Pretty pathetic that that’s their main claim to fame.

They did have a little commission “investigate” the email scandal, and of course the result was “it was all a misunderstanding” and the “scientists” (cough...propagandists) were restored to their former glorified status. Basically they waited 5 years for everyone to forget, then manufactured an excuse.

We shouldn’t forget.


20 posted on 10/09/2023 10:12:31 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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