yesterday evening, what’s left of the Trust and Safety team at X (previously Twitter) introduced the measures it was taking to try to curb the virulent spread of disinformation across the Israel-Hamas battle on its platform.

The assertion, issued three days after the battle started, reads: “As the events continue to unfold rapidly, a cross-company leadership group has assessed this moment as a crisis requiring the highest level of response.”

One one that doesn’t look like a part of this disaster group is X proprietor Elon Musk.

Instead of tackling the damaging disinformation downside on his platform, Musk as an alternative spent yeterday evening into this morning continuing to spread disinformation about the conflict, conversing with a known QAnon promoter, boosting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, and laughing at a video detailing how transphobic content material on X can get you new followers.

Musk additionally promoted a brand new function that enables X Premium subscribers to see solely replies from different folks keen to pay $8 a month, which Musk stated would “help a lot with spam bots” on the platform—a difficulty Musk previously claimed he had already all however eradicated.

“​​If successful, X will evolve to be the collective consciousness of humanity or, more accurately, the human-machine collective,” Musk posted in reply to a follower who stated he was doing an awesome job operating the corporate.

Meanwhile, disinformation in regards to the battle within the Middle East continues to rage on the platform, pushed primarily by verified accounts.

Yesterday night, X’s Trust and Safety group, which is currently leaderless after Ella Irwin resigned in June, wrote on X that it had “removed newly created Hamas-affiliated accounts” and was working with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an trade physique that helps coordinate content material moderation throughout social media platforms, to “try and prevent terrorist content from being distributed online.”

The Safety group’s assertion additionally lauded the user-generated Community Notes system and stated new accounts have been being enrolled to handle the flood of disinformation on the platform. The Safety group additionally revealed that it had eliminated “several hundreds accounts for attempting to manipulate trending topics.”

Since Musk took management of the platform just below a yr in the past, he has restructured it to encourage engagement over every little thing else. As a outcome, accounts that subscribe to X Premium now have a financial incentive to publish content material that’s participating no matter how truthful it’s. This was highlighted clearly on yesterday evening when, similtaneously the Safety group posted its replace, a brand new viral piece of disinformation was spreading unchecked on X.