Some of Israel images appear to be edited/ manipulated. Elon Musk eliminated content moderation team
On X, formerly known as Twitter, a violent video claiming to show the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Saturday morning. The New York Times found hundreds of X accounts sharing images of dead bodies, claiming to be Israeli civilians killed in the last 24 hours of fighting. Some of the images viewed by the Times appeared to be manipulated and edited.
Underneath some of the videos and images posted on X, people warned that they could be spread as part of a campaign to stoke fear among Israelis. Some of the accounts claimed to be working on behalf of Hamas.
On WhatsApp, Israelis warned each other not to look at X, which often auto-plays videos without warning.
“Don’t look, you might see someone you know,” wrote one person on a WhatsApp group dedicated to a neighborhood of South Tel Aviv.
There is a long history of misinformation being shared among Israeli and Palestinian groups, with false claims and conspiracies spiking during moments of heightened violence in the region.
Since Elon Musk took ownership of the platform one year ago, he has eliminated many of the content moderation teams that once removed violent imagery from the platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/07/world/israel-gaza-attack#graphic-images-of-violence-flood-social-media
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