{"id":1194665,"date":"2023-10-20T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194665"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:42:02","slug":"top-israel-hamas-misinformation-spreaders-use-elon-musks-paid-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194665","title":{"rendered":"Top Israel\/Hamas misinformation spreaders use Elon Musk\u2019s paid \u201cverification\u201d"},"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-x-1-800x486-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk's account on X (formerly Twitter) displayed on a smartphone next to a large X logo.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/getty-musk-x-1.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1519\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Nathan Stirk )<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Verified&#8221; accounts on Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform spread nearly three-quarters of the 250 most viral posts containing commonly shared misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsguardtech.com\/misinformation-monitor\/october-2023\/\">study released yesterday<\/a> by NewsGuard, a company that has worked with the European Commission on misinformation initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>After buying Twitter nearly a year ago, Musk overhauled the system for doling out blue checkmarks so that anyone who <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/03\/twitter-to-un-verify-people-who-dont-pay-8-month-starting-on-april-fools-day\/\">pays $8 a month<\/a> can be &#8220;verified.&#8221; Accounts verified as being notable and authentic under the pre-Musk system had their checkmarks removed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A NewsGuard analysis found that &#8216;verified&#8217; accounts on X are superspreaders of misinformation about the conflict, boosting falsehoods while displaying a &#8216;verification&#8217; blue checkmark that verifies nothing,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977478#p3\">Read 20 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977478&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1977478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top Israel\/Hamas misinformation spreaders use Elon Musk\u2019s paid \u201cverification\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Nathan Stirk ) &#8220;Verified&#8221; accounts on Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform spread nearly three-quarters of the 250 most viral posts containing commonly shared misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, according to a study released yesterday by NewsGuard, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194665\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1194665","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\/1194665","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=1194665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}