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PAM FRAMPTON: It’s getting harder to find real news in the X cesspool

Twitter was once driven by news, but X has become a site filled with propagating mistruths and influencing public thinking

In the video, clips of triumphant moments in American baseball are interspersed with grainy scenes of missiles causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure — presumably recorded acts of war.

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“Pure American dominance,” reads the post, which was made by the White House a week after the U.S. and Israel started bombing Iran.

Linking a sports highlight reel to scenes of missile strikes in another country sends a crude but, by now, well-worn message: Trump’s U.S.A. is “winning” on all fronts.

It’s another minute of my life wasted as I scroll through X (formerly Twitter), trying to find the latest actual news on the war in Iran.

Pure American dominance. 💥🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nvgWLar2ak— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 6, 2026

Pure American dominance. 💥🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nvgWLar2ak

Click elsewhere: Halifax council votes for municipality to stop using X

Halifax centre for education abandons former Twitter app

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