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.

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.

    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      There are some good sources on YouTube like Crash Course. The problem is when people get their information from posts or channels that are not peer reviewed.

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        71·
        1 year ago

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      • 30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t mean that there isn’t any good information on social media. I have spent a bunch of time watching video lectures that MITOpenCourseWare has posted on youtube.

        Using social media sites as a news aggregator is like looking at the news through a filter. I think that is bad because you don’t know how the filter works and you don’t control the filter.