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How Elon Musk's X Failed During the Israel-Hamas Conflict

2023/10/11
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Brooke Gladstone：在以色列-哈马斯冲突期间，Elon Musk的X平台（前身为Twitter）充斥着未经验证的图片、视频和信息，导致严重的混乱和冲突。许多内容是旧图片或视频被重新包装，甚至有些军事画面来自电子游戏。付费认证的匿名账户也加剧了虚假信息的传播。马斯克推荐的账号也曾发布过虚假信息和反犹太言论，进一步加剧了问题。欧盟也要求马斯克处理平台上的虚假信息，但效果不佳。 Avi Asher-Schapiro：X平台上很容易找到虚假信息，即使是经过验证的大账号也会传播虚假信息。一个被广泛传播的关于妇女被烧死的视频其实是七年前危地马拉的旧视频，说明虚假信息传播之迅速和影响之大。X平台缺乏透明度，难以了解其内容审核机制。马斯克的付费认证机制激励了不良行为，加剧了虚假信息的传播。马斯克裁员和削弱内容审核团队，导致平台对虚假信息的控制能力下降。依靠志愿者进行内容审核存在不足，无法有效应对大量虚假信息。X平台的盈利模式缺乏有效的监管机制，可能导致虚假信息泛滥。马斯克推荐的账号传播虚假信息，加剧了平台上的虚假信息问题。马斯克声称平台更加开放和民主，但实际上只是用他个人的偏好取代了之前的偏见。算法驱动的信息流存在缺陷，缺乏透明度和问责制。虽然之前的Twitter也存在问题，但马斯克的改变加剧了这些问题。马斯克的行为使得评估其平台的社会影响变得更加困难。与乌克兰战争初期相比，X平台对以色列-哈马斯冲突的应对缺乏透明度和细节。 Avi Asher-Schapiro: X平台的信息传播机制存在严重缺陷，导致虚假信息大量传播，影响了对冲突的真实记录。算法驱动的信息流加剧了这一问题，使得人们难以分辨真假信息。与以往的平台相比，X平台对虚假信息的处理方式更加被动，缺乏有效的监管和问责机制。马斯克的个人偏好和决策也影响了平台的内容审核和信息传播。

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The episode discusses the spread of misinformation on Elon Musk's X during the Israel-Hamas conflict, highlighting the platform's failure to manage the influx of unverified content and the impact of Musk's policy changes.

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This week, Bloomberg reported) that social media posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict have led to a sticky cesspool of confusion and conflict on Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter. On Saturday, just hours after Hamas fighters from Gaza surged into Israel, unverified photos and videos of missile air strikes, buildings and homes being destroyed and other posts depicting military violence — in Israel and Gaza — crowded the platform. But some of the horror, not all of course, were old images passed off as new. Some of this content was posted by anonymous accounts that carried blue checkmarks, which signals that they had purchased verification under X’s “premium” subscription service. Some military footage circulating on X were drawn from video games, and some of the lies were, as usual, pushed by far-right pundits on the platform, for clicks or, possibly, ulterior motives. For the midweek podcast, Brooke speaks with Avi Asher-Schapiro), who covers tech for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, about how Musk's policy changes at X have led to a stronger initial surge of misinformation than usual during this conflict, and how an algorithmically-driven "fog of war" impacts our historical record of this conflict. 

 

 

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