A few minutes later The perpetrators of the Catholic Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis were identified last week, and YouTube appears to have deleted several videos shared that morning.
However, before downloading the video and resave X in full.
Within hours, the platform was filled with crazy claims about shooters and their motivations, everyone from Elon Muskthe owner of the site has published half-familiar accusations to the heads of the FBI and left-wing activists, accusing anti-Christian hatred, transgender genocide and white supremacy. Many posts add millions of views based on X’s public metrics.
While other social media platforms have also been used to share unfounded claims about shooter motives, X under Musk has become an ideal platform for the spread of dangerous disinformation during dangerous news events. The entire team The false information on the platform was first eliminated a few years ago, now The largest user of X Claims that they are being motivated by the platform to share context click-bait content in verified facts.
“X’s feed algorithm is fully designed to maximize engagement, even negative participation,” said Laura Edelson, assistant professor at Northeastern University’s School of Computer Science, who specializes in tracking false information online. “In this case, conspiracy, extreme content tends to behave well. When you combine it with the fact that X’s content rules are greatly weakened, that’s exactly what we expect.”
X did not respond to a wired request for comment.
An 11-minute video of the shooting game is shared by dozens of accounts within minutes of revealing its identity, including a wide variety of guns and ammunition. Weapon decoration More than 120 symbols, words and phrases Shooter is the dozens of hateful ideologies used by the nihilistic online community, mass shooters, memes and coding languages.
As an extremist researcher Warn people Given the huge number, written and video content that needs to be analyzed, X users hardly noticed, objecting to drawing quick conclusions.
On the same day, from elected MPs and senior government officials to law enforcement officers, activists, activists, activists, activists, activists, activists, screenshots of activities. podcastand conspiracy theorists on X push specific narratives about the latest blame Massive shooting.
In one of the main narratives that were wrongly pushed immediately after the shooting, conservative influencers and politicians claimed that the perpetrator’s gender identity was at fault. Information about the shooter, who was identified as trans and changed Robin Westman’s name at the age of 17, spread like wildfires on X, listed by a large number of right-wing figures, including Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,,,,, Right-wing podcast Benny Johnsonand Musk himself. X’s own AI-powered chatbot Grok Refuted The idea of trans people conducting mass shootings disproportionately.
Many X users like Right-wing commentator Nick Sateror, It claimed that the attack was inspired by hatred of God and cited the shooter’s gun “all anti-Christian and anti-God writings.” FBI Director Kash Patel These claims appear to be raised by posting the shooting being investigated as a “hate crime against Catholics.” Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer It is said that The shooter is “radicalized by the left and Islam.” Others believe that anti-Israel phrases written on weapons prove that shootings are anti-Semitic.
