Ben Goggin is the deputy editor for technology at NBC News Digital.
A doctored White House press release posted online falsely claimed that the Biden administration had authorized $8 billion in emergency aid to Israel on Saturday. The fact that it was faked didn't stop it from being posted across the internet and rising to the top of Google search results.
Under Elon Musk's ownership, Twitter has scaled back its operations which would have attempted to moderate misinformation on the platform. As the fake release spread on X, it was reposted to other social media websites like TikTok, but on a much smaller scale. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Google and other search engines, it's easy to find fake news articles that were seemingly written after the fake release was published.
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