'It's now almost impossible to tell what's a fact, what's a rumour, what's a conspiracy theory, and what's trolling,' Rothschild said.
Posts about the attack in Israel have led to confusion, misinformation and conflict on Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, exposing how his acquisition and policy changes have transformed the social media site into an unreliable resource during a time of crisis, researchers said.
“It’s now almost impossible to tell what’s a fact, what’s a rumour, what’s a conspiracy theory, and what’s trolling,” Rothschild said. “Musk’s changes haven’t just made X useless during a time of crisis. They’ve made it actively worse.” Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit, said that X’s statement showed the platform was pushing the burden for a solution onto its users. “We keep telling people that it’s their job to wade through an ever-growing wave of misinformation that is increasingly indistinguishable from reality,” said Ahmed, whose group is being sued by X Corp after publishing research in July showing a rise in hate speech on the social network.
But no such statement has ever appeared on the US government’s website. The dateline and details in the screenshot were manipulated, copying a White House statement in July that announced financial aid for Ukraine, according to an independent misinformation researcher who posted a fact-check online.
The Taliban “have never staged any operations outside Afghanistan,” said Kugelman, who has studied Afghanistan and the Taliban since 2007. “Their ideology and operational strategies have always focused on Afghanistan, and Afghanistan alone.” He also pointed out that previous posts made by the account were uncharacteristically critical of Qatar, which the Taliban would never be.
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