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# Verified Accounts on X Are Thriving As They Spread Israel-Hamas Conflict Misinformation
- URL: https://werd.io/verified-accounts-on-x-are-thriving-as-they-spread-israel-hamas/
- Published: 2023-12-20T14:57:19.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-20T14:57:19.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"An investigation by ProPublica and Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism shows how false claims based on out-of-context, outdated or manipulated media have proliferated on X during the first month of the Israel-Hamas conflict."

"\[...\] We also found that the Community Notes system, which has been touted by Musk as a way to improve information accuracy on the platform, hasn’t scaled sufficiently. About 80% of the 2,000 debunked posts we reviewed had no Community Note. Of the 200 debunked claims, more than 80 were never clarified with a note."

So here's the problem. The question is, on a massive online service, what exactly can be done about it. [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/x-verified-accounts-misinformation-israel-hamas-conflict)\]