X owner Elon Musk is under pressure to answer questions as to why Hamas has been allowed to spread propaganda on his platform following terror rampage.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been warned to take action to crack down on the spread of his disinformation and fake, misleading Hamas affiliated content following the deadly attack on Israel.
The rapid spread of misleading claims
and doctored images in the aftermath of a deadly rampage by
Hamas gunmen in Israel has put the focus on Elon Musk s X
platform, which has drawn the ire of the.
The rapid spread of misleading claims and doctored images in the aftermath of a deadly rampage by Hamas gunmen in Israel has put the focus on Elon Musk's X platform, which has drawn the ire of the European Union. Part of the challenge for those combating fake information online is that changes made by Musk earlier this year have made it more difficult to track the full scale of deception on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, social media researchers told Reuters. Researchers studying the origins and proliferation of misinformation said they have lost the ability to automatically track keywords, hashtags and other information about real-time events, as X eliminated access to a data tool that was free to academics before Musk's acquisition of the platform in October last year.