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By Avi Asher-Schapiro | U.S. Tech Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is being flooded with misleading posts, including doctored images and videos purporting to show the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n

Research from the group Media Matters found that accounts with X’s verification badge had\u00a0racked up millions of views<\/a>\u00a0passing off videos and images from other conflicts as news from the ground. Some verified accounts also impersonated news outlets.<\/p>\n

As Bloomberg reported, under Elon Musk’s leadership Twitter has made a number of changes that could\u00a0exacerbate this problem<\/a>, including cutting staff tasked with curating and labeling content, as well as allowing users to purchase verification badges that boost their reach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israeli military vehicles and soldiers from an artillery unit gather near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023. REUTERS\/Ronen Zvulun<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Theodora Skeadas, a former public policy staffer at Twitter who worked on content moderation, told\u00a0Context<\/span>\u00a0that staffing cuts had significantly undermined Twitter’s capacity to tackle the deluge of doctored posts and misleading videos and images.<\/p>\n

“The work that Twitter would have done in the past is elevate reliable information, remove misinformation and content that violates the terms of service – add labels to certain posts for more\u00a0context<\/span>,” she said. “With reduced staff across trust and safety teams it’s so much harder to undertake that work.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Elon<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly known as Twitter. REUTERS\/Gonzalo Fuentes<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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