Elon Musk’s X Cut Disinformation-Fighting Tool Ahead of Israel-Hamas Conflict

Elon Musk’s X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation now spreading across the platform formerly known as Twitter.

In recent months, the company shut down an internal product that could identify when different accounts shared the same or similar media, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Such identification is an important part of dealing with coordinated disinformation campaigns, where networks of fake accounts post the same image or video, the people said.