By Charisma Madarang As verified accounts on X, formerly Twitter, continue to spread misinformation about the violent standoff between Hamas and Israel, Elon Musk has ordered his nearly 160 million “To track war in real time, @WarMonitors and @sentdefender are smart,” Musk posted on X on Sunday morning. He added: “It is also worth continuing to have direct resources on the ground. Upload attractive features in the answers below. In his own post, CNN’s Jake Tapper took a screenshot of Musk’s message along with a screenshot of a derogatory message from the War Monitor account to a user named Avi Kaner. In the caption, Tapper wrote: “Elon Musk salutes this enthusiast as an intelligent source of information, Infiniti component. » A year later, the War Monitors account thanked Kanye West in a Twitter thread, stating that “the overwhelming majority of people in the media and banks are Zinists” and told user to a little Jewish brother. ” “
Emerson T. Brooking, a researcher at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, wrote in X that @sentdefender is an “absolutely poisoned account. “Periodically publishes false and unverifiable data (“source information”). to increase your number of paying subscribers. Elon Musk praises this enthusiast as a savvy source of data, in part Infiniti pic. twitter. com/n318hVaJaW The two accounts shared through Musk spread the false news of an explosion at the White House in May, causing a brief stock market crash before the story was debunked. In August, a hashtag crusade pushed by right-wing ideologues and riddled with anti-Semitic content began to catch on at X and won owner Musk’s award. of the accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, called on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil rights organization whose goal is to counter anti-Semitism and extremism, from the site.
Keith Woods, an Irish YouTuber with ties to prominent white supremacists including Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes, amplified the hashtag in a post falsely claiming that the ADL is “financially blackmailing social media corporations into suppressing loose speech on their platform. “, first liked the post and then replied that “ADL tried with all might to strangle X/Twitter. “A year after Musk’s acquisition of X, the social media platform dissolved its protection and acceptance council, reinstated right-wing extremists and disinformation. In the past, street vendors were banned from the platform, journalists critical of Elon Musk were censored (they haven’t been suspended since), and reportedly saw a buildup of hate speech on the site — the billionaire threatened to sue researchers documenting the accumulation in hateful tweets. . We need to hear it. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Rolling Stone is part of Penske Media Corporation. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ©
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