Fact or Fiction? In This War, It Is Hard to Tell.

[MN2theMax]

Social media is full of false and misleading posts. The rise in A.I. is making it worse. And the trust in traditional news sources has declined. Link to gifted NYT article below.

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Increasingly, our digitized lives have become an information battleground, with every side in any conflict vying to offer its version. Old images have been recycled to make a new point. At the same time, actual images have been disputed as fakes, including a bloody photograph that Donald J. Trump Jr., the former president’s son, shared on X.

Reliable news organizations used to function as curators, verifying information and contextualizing it, and they still do. Nevertheless, some have sought to question their reliability as gatekeepers, most prominently Elon Musk, the owner of X.

The day after the fighting in Israel erupted, Mr. Musk shared a post on X encouraging his followers to trust the platform more than mainstream media, recommending two accounts that have been notorious for spreading false claims. (Mr. Musk later deleted the post but not before it had been seen millions of times.)

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[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/business/israel-hamas-misinformation-social-media-x.html?unlocked_article_code=vELCUs0k4Fl3b0hry8pyiLgt-4dHZ25U06alHPdMEAFPEnieHgdz0xmV2Z4Qmy38RYPFpoY7qlwmPb6yh7m5b_FDZjOgvOSa6xLsWSxmXdtkpLhlxRYJ-u2ubu5zJ1fAUlIRrGoTK1gRssGUbc_JJpeb-mNd7XGJve1UfOqa0xjg7-aFmiFJrlu2oiFxlycRwYYS3zGNBWRMJbvDu7_9RrMtHSqgrxjqBdHiUoxCIRIHv3DHrsSBwIY2WpXd7sAEmchzLMaU3h4nxftSmrCY4DbJo4lMFFQLbUmWGfDef6VZ-Jsc74tKwVfNIaxG_M9lM5uzGAu-KdOZJxmcYHL9Soqz6kNYHu0nIbxVPlYdLuJLLm3kug&smid=url-share

[mike_c]

1. we have reached the point where it is so easy to spread outrageous lies...

...and so hard to reliably distinguish falsehoods from truth that no information source is truly trustworthy because information itself is suspect, regardless of whom is disseminating it. It's the Age of Lies.

[MN2theMax]

2. I agree

I’m trying really hard to use my best discernment and not promote the lies, or the propaganda that seems to be taking over social media. Truth and reality needs to overcome the misinformation and lies, especially here on DU. This is my quest.