{"id":12103,"date":"2023-11-02T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:55:01","slug":"elon-musks-israel-disinformation-investigation-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12103","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Israel disinformation investigation, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In the hours after the Hamas attack on Israel began, users subscribed to X Premium \u2014 whose accounts show a verified check mark and get boosted engagement in exchange for a monthly fee \u2014 spread a number of particularly egregious pieces of misinformation. According to a running tracker by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/twitter\/musks-x-allows-misinformation-about-hamas-war-israel-proliferate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Matters<\/a>, these accounts amplified a fake&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/internet\/verified-accounts-spread-fake-news-release-biden-8-billion-aid-package-rcna119372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House memo<\/a>&nbsp;claiming the US government was about to send $8 billion in aid to Israel; circulated videos from other conflicts (and in some cases,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/10\/12\/arma3-israel-hamas-conflict-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">footage from a video game<\/a>) while claiming they showed the latest out of Israel and Gaza; falsely claimed that a church in Gaza had been bombed; and impersonated a news outlet. These posts were shared by X users with huge followings and viewed tens of millions of times. The Tech Transparency Project said on Thursday that it had identified X Premium accounts promoting Hamas propaganda videos,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/articles\/x-premium-accounts-spread-hamas-propaganda-videos-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which were viewed hundreds of thousands of times<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/2023\/10\/17\/23921219\/x-twitter-europe-disinformation-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/2023\/10\/17\/23921219\/x-twitter-europe-disinformation-investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the hours after the Hamas attack on Israel began, users subscribed to X Premium \u2014 whose accounts show a verified check mark and get boosted engagement in exchange for a monthly fee \u2014 spread a number of particularly egregious pieces of misinformation. According to a running tracker by Media Matters, these accounts amplified a fake White House memo claiming the US government was about to send $8 billion in aid to Israel; circulated videos from other conflicts (and in some cases, footage from a video game) while claiming they showed the latest out of Israel and Gaza; falsely claimed that a church in Gaza had been bombed; and impersonated a news outlet. These posts were shared by X users with huge followings and viewed tens of millions of times. The Tech Transparency Project said on Thursday that it had identified X Premium accounts promoting Hamas propaganda videos, which were viewed hundreds of thousands of times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/2023\/10\/17\/23921219\/x-twitter-europe-disinformation-investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1967,1598,1301,1102,194,391,1029,389,328,108,115,327,158],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-disinformation","tag-elon-musk","tag-hamas","tag-information","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-misinformation","tag-palestine","tag-social-media","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-twitter","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}