2025-11-23
As X reveals where each account is based, it's worth bearing in mind that not every user who hides their location is a grifter or engagement farmer. There are activists and whistleblowers based in authoritarian countries who do it to avoid potential persecution and arrest.
@nikitabier
X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile
In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the sig...
As X reveals where each account is based, it's worth bearing in mind that not every user who hides their location is a grifter or engagement farmer. There are activists and whistleblowers based in authoritarian countries who do it to avoid potential persecution and arrest.
The Daily Beast
X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria
ROLE PLAY — A new feature on Elon Musk's X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
2025-02-21
Elon Musk says he's going to “fix” community notes because he disagrees with a note on President Trump's claim that Zelensky has a 4% approval rating. Musk also claims community notes are “being gamed by governments & legacy media”, but provides no evidence for that claim. The
Gizmodo
Elon Musk says he will “fix” Community Notes as they are “increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media”, after disagreeing with notes about Ukraine
which often gets the facts wrong. Worthy mission. But X is dominated by more lies & often deranged bigotry. It's disappointing. Senator Stan Kutcher / @stankutcher : Trying to have...
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes The entire point of the community notes system is that it's independent of the personal views of the people running this platform. If you start tampering with the system because you personally dislike some notes, then how could users continue to trust it?
Gizmodo
Elon Musk says he will “fix” Community Notes as they are “increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media”, after disagreeing with notes about Ukraine
which often gets the facts wrong. Worthy mission. But X is dominated by more lies & often deranged bigotry. It's disappointing. Senator Stan Kutcher / @stankutcher : Trying to have...
2025-01-09
A reminder that many useful Community Notes on X cite as evidence articles researched and published by traditional fact-checking organisations around the world, the very same ones that are apparently useless, biased and unreliable.
Techdirt
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid
from the misinformation-about-disinformation dept — When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics …
2024-10-24
BBC Verify has extensively reported on an AI-powered influence operation run by Moscow-based former Florida cop John Mark Dougan. Now @washingtonpost says it's seen documents that show Dougan has been directly working with Russian military intelligence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]
Wired
Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members
Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.
BBC Verify has extensively reported on an AI-powered influence operation run by Moscow-based former Florida cop John Mark Dougan. Now @washingtonpost says it's seen documents that show Dougan has been directly working with Russian military intelligence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]
Washington Post
Documents show direct ties between Russia's government and a former Florida deputy sheriff behind a network of fake news sites using AI and targeting US voters
hard to see how this guy doesn't qualify: — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Shayan Sardarizadeh / @shayan86 : BBC Verify has extensively reported on an AI-powered influenc...
2024-08-12
Donald Trump falsely claims on Truth Social that Kamala Harris' campaign “faked” the size of her crowd at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, saying that “there was nobody there”. The crowd at the airport in Detroit was very real, as numerous videos and images from the rally prove. [image]
Rolling Stone
After Kamala Harris held a rally in Detroit with thousands of attendees, Donald Trump falsely claimed the crowd was “fake” and “she 'AI'd” a picture of it
The former president has also falsely accused his opponents of paying people to attend their rallies
2024-08-09
Elon Musk shared a completely fake Daily Telegraph headline posted by Britain First's co-leader about “detainment camps on the Falkland Islands” for UK rioters to his 193 million followers and then deleted it without any explanation.
Politics.co.uk
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
The reason Musk holds this belief is that he has completely surrounded himself on Twitter with people exactly like the racist hoodlums who have been terrorizing immigrants and asyl...
2024-08-08
Telegram has confirmed to me that it's removing calls for violence in the UK. “Moderators are actively monitoring the situation and are removing channels and posts containing calls to violence. Calls to violence are explicitly forbidden by Telegram's terms of service.” [image]
Financial Times
Similarweb: active UK Telegram users hit 3.1M on July 29 and 3.7M on July 30 after a stabbing, as rioters used chat apps, up from a ~2.7M average in early 2024
Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups
Telegram has confirmed to me that it's removing calls for violence in the UK. “Moderators are actively monitoring the situation and are removing channels and posts containing calls to violence. Calls to violence are explicitly forbidden by Telegram's terms of service.” [image]
Politics.co.uk
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
2024-08-05
The owner of this platform weighs in on the unrest currently unfolding in the UK. [image]
Bloomberg
The UK says “there's no justification” for Elon Musk saying that “civil war is inevitable”, and calls on social media companies to moderate misinformation more
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg :
2024-05-30
It's hard to assess why that AI image has become so viral, but it could be down to these factors: - It's a reaction to a huge fire at a camp in Rafah that killed at least 45 Palestinians sheltering there on Sunday - It's been shared by multiple influencers, athletes and celebrities from different parts of the world on Instagram - It's very easy to share the image via Instagram stories - Instagram is one of the main platforms for pro-Palestinian activism and original content from Gaza - It cannot be taken down for platform violations, unlike some of the graphic Instagram videos of bodies at the camp in Rafah that were removed by Meta
NBC News
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images
The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
With tens of millions of shares via Instagram stories in less than 48 hours, and subsequent shares on X, Facebook and TikTok, this AI-generated image of tents reading “All Eyes on Rafah” has now become the most viral AI-generated image I've ever seen. [image]
NBC News
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images
The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
2024-04-16
@Osint613 The video is from February and filmed in Syria https://twitter.com/...
Wired
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”
This video, viewed nearly 400,000 times, falsely claims to show Palestinians at Al-Aqsa mosque celebrate Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel tonight. The video is from last week, and shows Palestinians praying at Al-Aqsa on the last Friday of Ramadan. [image]
Wired
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”
@vcdgf555 I cannot deal with the volume of BS by “osint accounts” on this platform atm. Just a load of rubbish being posted for engagement
Wired
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”
Video game footage is once again going viral online via users seeking engagement during a breaking news event. This is not footage of Israel's Iron Dome in action against an Iranian retaliatory attack, it's from the video game Arma 3. [image]
Wired
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”
Seeing this video being shared widely today as a failed Iranian drone found in Iraq this morning. It's an old video from Syria and unrelated to the retaliatory attack by Iran against Israel last night.
Wired
ISD: fake footage of Iran's attack on Israel went viral on X, including AI-made videos and photos, with many posts from verified accounts and “OSINT experts”
The US does not have military bases in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Turkmenistan, Jake. [image]
Wired