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The owner of X, formerly Twitter, faced a furious backlash after telling his followers that the accounts @WarMonitors and @sentdefender were good for following the war in real time .
WASHINGTON (THE WASHINGTON POST) – Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies, while false information about the rapidly changing war between Gaza Strip militants and Israel proliferated on the social media platform X over the weekend. “For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on […]
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.