{"id":1190596,"date":"2023-10-10T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190596"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:13:33","slug":"israel-hamas-war-has-x-and-its-users-swimming-in-sea-of-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190596","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/getty-musk-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk speaking at a tech event.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/getty-musk.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1667\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Elon Musk at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Friday, June 16, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/israel-hamas-war-surveillance\/\">Hamas\u2019 deadly attacks on Israel<\/a> this weekend\u2014and the Israeli military\u2019s response\u2014journalists, researchers, open source intelligence (OSINT) experts, and fact-checkers rushed to verify the deluge of raw video footage and images being shared online by people on the ground. But users of X (formerly Twitter) seeking information on the conflict faced a flood of disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>While all major world events are now accompanied almost instantly by a deluge of disinformation aimed at controlling the narrative, the scale and speed at which disinformation was being seeded about the Israel-Hamas conflict is unprecedented\u2014particularly on X.<\/p>\n<p \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974655#p3\">Read 19 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974655&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1974655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Elon Musk at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Friday, June 16, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) In the wake of Hamas\u2019 deadly attacks on Israel this weekend\u2014and the Israeli military\u2019s response\u2014journalists, researchers, open source &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1190596\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1190596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}