The ever-mounting enshittification of the social media experience in the 2020s is continuing with each passing moment, particularly on X, where wildly misleadingly and frequently outright false clips have proliferated as of late.
Unwittingly ensnared in this trend, which one could easily argue is fueled by rage bait-minded engagement tactics, are a number of stars who might want to suit up for some defamation lawsuit action, including (but certainly not limited to) Cardi B and Offset.
Streamer JasonTheWeen also recently highlighted this growing issue in an interview with Complex, calling out clip pages on X, and elsewhere, for using “fake captions” to drive false narratives about himself and other public figures.
Of course, we’ve already advised you on the best practices to combat such bullshit through the lens of AI slop, but this latest wrinkle in the collapse of social media is a bit more nuanced.
Below, we take a closer look while remaining fully aware that this very article might itself end up being misleadingly presented in future X posts.
The current trend, asinine though it may be, is having real impact. In short, what we’re talking about here are clips—often taken from celebs’ IG Stories, or similar sources—which are shared on X, the once great platform formally known as Twitter before its Elon Musk-ification, alongside claims of their contents that are at best misleading and at worst abject bullshit.
In one example, shared by...
A fake BBC News report that falsely accuses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of displaying a stolen painting has been circulating on X since April 21. The footage appears to show the Ukraini...