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.
Breaking news: people who get their news from social media are idiots.
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 The problem is when people get their information from posts or channels that are not peer reviewed.
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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.