Multi-trillion-dollar stock market swings on Monday appear to have been set off by false reports on Elon Musk’s X. Experts say the episode highlights the social media site’s enduring relevance, even as it helps amplify falsehoods.

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  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    went ahead and reported completely unfounded non-sense anyway.

    The White House is now such a mess I don’t know how organizations would even go about verifying this anyway. You can ask for an official statement and it’s just a random guess by someone these days, it’s not an official statement of policy.

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      4 days ago

      Could be, but that’s on the White House, not the reporters. But the case here.