Blue Ticks Are Spreading Misinformation During Israel-Hamas Tension

I’ve never seen so much on social media, especially on X (Twitter). disinformation We told you how it was done. Social media, where it’s easy to spread misinformation, is misleading us about who to trust, according to a new – and not surprising – study.

Because it controls the reliability of the information shared NewsGuard His study reveals that most accounts with blue ticks play a major role in disinformation.

The 250 posts that received the most interaction were examined.

10 of these contain unverified or completely false information. 186 out of 250 posts, or 74 percent, are shared by X-verified accounts. When we look at the total, these shares It received 1.35 million interactions and we see that it achieved 100 million views in just 1 week.

Among these posts containing false information: Ukraine sells weapons to Hamas There were such as. In particular, the analysis shows that government officials and other authorized people share a lot of misinformation. Stating that they were trying to reach X, the NewsGuard team said, “check back laterHe received an automatic message that couldn’t go further than saying “.

Also, X is not the only one responsible. Because NewsGuard team; Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Telegram He states that such misinformation is spread in places such as, but chose X as a common platform.

X got into trouble with the EU again over the issue of disinformation. Now such a report is emerging. Frankly, there is no need to be surprised. Because we have seen that Twitter was silent on such issues before the Elon Musk era. You can take a look at our content below to remember this situation.