How information about the shooting of Minnesota was like a fire in X
Minutes after Last week, a shooting at the Catholic Church in Minneapolis revealed that YouTube appear to have eliminated several films that they had shared that day.
But before loading the videos completely in X.
Within hours, the platform shows the blame of anti -Christian hatred, the Transgender and the top white, with its wild claims about his shooter and motivation, with all the people from Elon Musk, the owner of the site, to the FBI boss and the leftist activists, who blame the semi -cooked claims. Many posts showed millions of views on every public criterion.
While other social media operating systems were also used to share baseless claims about shooting motivations, X, under Musk, has become a good platform for charging the spread of dangerous information when breaking news events. The whole team, who did the task of dealing with information on the platform, first disappeared years ago, and now the largest X users claim to have been provoked by the platform to share the content of the clickbait out -of -text through approved facts.
“The X feed algorithm is entirely designed to maximize interaction, even negative interaction,” says Laura Adelson, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at Northeast University, who specializes in tracking online information. “In this case, the conspiracy and intense content tends to perform well.
X did not respond to Wired request for comment.
A 11 -minute shooter film, shared by dozens of X accounts in a few minutes after his identity was revealed, includes a wide range of weapons and ammunition. These weapons were adorned with more than 120 symbols, words, and phrases that referred to dozens of disgusting ideologies, mass shooters, behavioral patterns and encrypted language used by Nihilist online societies that the shooter was a member.
As researchers of extremism, given the large number of digital, writing and video content they needed to analyze, they warned people to quickly conclude, X users received little attention.
On the same day, images of this video were used by all of the lawmakers and senior government officials to law enforcement personnel, activists, podcasts and conspiracy theorists in X to push specific narratives about the culprit of the last mass shooting.
In one of the main narratives that was mistakenly pressured immediately after the shooting, conservative influencers and politicians claimed that gender identity was blamed. The shooter information, known as Transgender and changed his name to Robin Westman, when he was 17 years old, like a fire in X, with a huge list of right -wing figures, including Georgia, Marjouri Taylor Green, Bani Johnson, the right -wing garrison, and Mesak himself. Grok Grok with its AI X’s power rejected the idea that Transgender people are doing inappropriate shooting.
Many X users, such as Nick Swori, the right commentators, claimed that the attack was motivated by hatred of God and cited “all anti -Christian and anti -God writings” on shooting weapons. I wish Patel, the FBI manager, reinforces the claims by claiming that the shooting is being investigated as “hate Catholic crimes”. The conspiracy theorist, Laura Lamar, claimed that the shooter was “radical by leftist and Islam”. Others cited anti -Israeli terms written on weapons, which was an anti -Semitic shooting.
