Check First<p>Twitter used to be where news breaks. Now <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>’s newsroom is broken. "During the riots in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, for days, major hashtags on the riots such as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FranceRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranceRiots</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FranceOnFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranceOnFire</span></a> were dominated by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> and far-right” While the context was different, in many ways the informational meltdown on Twitter resembled an almost impenetrable morass of mis- and disinformation <a href="https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/twitter-used-to-be-where-news-breaks-now-twitters-newsroom-is-broken/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">isdglobal.org/digital_dispatch</span><span class="invisible">es/twitter-used-to-be-where-news-breaks-now-twitters-newsroom-is-broken/</span></a></p>