Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War - Misinformation Monitor: October 2023 - NewsGuard
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  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost as if paying for a trusted or verified badge makes it easier to spread misinformation

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You should probably not listen to the opinion of anyone who pays Elon Musk 8 dollars a month for an emoji.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep, sounds like Elon and the Saudi’s have achieved their goal of crippling Twitter’s utility as a means of organizing large scale protests and uprisings like the Arab Spring or the BLM protests in 2020. Now all that’s left are propaganda bots and various flavours of right wing extremists.