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.
The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation::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.
When lemmy becomes popular, how will we make the solid information stand out and not drown in disinformation ourselves?
Can we pull off an elite move and use the war to make lemmy popular right now by being the place on the internet that has the best collection of relevant and trustworthy X accounts?
Stop all such posts like the above: naked external links.
When you want to link something, you must also add something personal to it, like your opinion, your own summary of what you think is the remarkable piece of news, your knowlege about the trustworthiness of that source, etc.
Prove that you are a human. Prove that you have delivered some quality content. Or try it at least. Failure is OK. Automated low effort posting is NOK.
IMHO that’s the only way how we humans can stay ‘above’ the bots. Disinformation campaigns are using the same bots as information campaigns.
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When lemmy becomes popular, how will we make the solid information stand out and not drown in disinformation ourselves?
Can we pull off an elite move and use the war to make lemmy popular right now by being the place on the internet that has the best collection of relevant and trustworthy X accounts?
Perhaps a federation that has very curated posts? Thinking something like snopes.
I think Wikipedia is working on this.
Stop all such posts like the above: naked external links.
When you want to link something, you must also add something personal to it, like your opinion, your own summary of what you think is the remarkable piece of news, your knowlege about the trustworthiness of that source, etc.
Prove that you are a human. Prove that you have delivered some quality content. Or try it at least. Failure is OK. Automated low effort posting is NOK.
IMHO that’s the only way how we humans can stay ‘above’ the bots. Disinformation campaigns are using the same bots as information campaigns.