The war in Israel also intensifies the battle between X and traditional media

During events such as this terrible Israel-Hamas war, trusted and fact-checking information and news sources are crucial.

Especially in a war like this, where the news flow is constant and huge, the situation is geopolitically explosive and lots of emotions are involved.

The first thing that’s lost during a war is nuance. And, as we know by now, facts. And that’s a real issue.

As X — and other socials — is a platform where it seems nuance has increasingly become an issue, it’s a challenging place to go for fact-checked and relevant information. Especially in times of war.

Because of the continuous and huge stream of posts, misinformation is widely spread, including fake videos, false claims, irrelevant opinions by ‘living room experts’ (many of those), etc.

So, you have to be aware and take time to find the truth. If you do at all. It’s war after all.

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It even got as far that the EU and Musk are at ‘war’ over the new Digital Services Act (DSA), because of misinformation on X. Musk now threatens to shut off X in the EU.

So, yes, it’s a fact that there is a lot of misinformation on social channels. But at the same time, X has a…