Laura Barrón-López:

Geoff, some of the harshest criticism is being directed at the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk.

The European Union wrote to both X and Meta, which owns Facebook, urging the companies to take down misleading posts and videos and comply with European law. Some posts can look real. This one, for example, included videos supposedly showing footage of a Hamas militant taking down an Israeli helicopter. But that video is actually from a video game.

Similarly, this video of an Israeli strike in Gaza is real, but it happened in May, not this week, as it was portrayed.

For a closer look, I'm joined by Emerson Brooking, a senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and co-author of "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media."

Emerson, thanks for joining.

I want to show one more example of misinformation spreading across platforms like X. This video states that Hamas captured Israeli generals. And it was posted by an account with a blue check mark. It's been viewed by nearly two million people, but it isn't actually what it says that it is. It's an older video of authorities in Azerbaijan capturing a separatist leader.

So why is misinformation like this so dangerous, and what examples of it are you seeing across X?

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