Social Media Platforms Swamped With Fake News on the Israel-Hamas war
Of all platforms, Elon Musk’s X appears to have had the worst outbreak of fake news related to the war.
“These massive companies are still stumped by the proliferation of disinformation, even as no one is still surprised by it,” said Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics Program at Santa Clara University.
“They put out numbers – how many posts they’ve taken down, how many accounts they’ve blocked, what settings you might want to change if you don’t want to see carnage. What they don’t put out are their metrics of their failures: how many distortions were not accompanied by ‘Community Notes’ or otherwise labeled, and for how long. It’s left to the journalists and researchers to document their failures after they happen.”
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Al Jazeera.