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With help from its owner, X has become overrun with misinformation related to the war between Israel and Hamas — giving us a window into how the site we all once knew as Twitter might be used to sow confusion and manipulate the masses when future global events occur. On Sunday, as the conflict in the Middle East was accelerating, Elon Musk — X’s owner and a conspiracy theorist in his own right — recommended that users follow two accounts that are notorious for spreading misinformation.
To think that the platform “failed” its first test amid a global crisis is to assume that its leadership wants the platform to be a source of reputable information — an assumption none of us should feel comfortable making about a Musk-led company. In fact, we have ample reason to believe Musk is delighted by the falsities he and his site have propped up.
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