What Next TBD: The Israel-Hamas War Instantly Broke X

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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When the Arab Spring was unfolding, Twitter was hailed as a way for on-the-ground reporting to reach the public. But when fighting between Hamas and Israel broke out over the weekend, X became flooded with misinformation. Guest: Casey Newton, founder and editor of the technology newsletter Platformer. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.2	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.0	We Will Liars.
0:26.2	New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:45.8	That sound you're hearing, a helicopter and a grenade being launched, is from a video that was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this week. It was posted with the caption,
0:52.1	New Video, Hamas fighters shooting down Israel War Helicopter in Gaza.
0:57.9	It's been viewed more than two and a half million times, reposted more than 2,500 times.
1:04.3	Except, it's totally fake. It's from a video game called ArmMA 3. It's not in Gaza.
1:11.3	It's not in Israel.
1:12.7	Nothing about it has anything to do with the current conflict.
1:18.7	The video now has a community note attached explaining this, but not before it bounced
1:24.4	all around the internet.
1:26.5	Other videos, horrifying real ones, from Israel and Gaza, are all over X, with little or no warning.
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