Over the course of the last two days, millions have witnessed the Middle East's most sensitive conflict take its latest violent turn through social media. As Hamas fighters crossed the border into Israel on Saturday, prompting Israeli forces to respond with air strikes on Gaza, social media had a clear function to play: Give people access to real-time, accurate information. This function is especially important when it involves a complex conflict as historic, violent, and consequential as that between Israel and Hamas. Yet X in particular remains rife with misinformation and vitriol, even as owner Elon Musk pushes the platform as the bastion of citizen journalism, where users post unfiltered, accurate reporting without involving professional journalists. Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist specializing in disinformation at BBC Monitoring, lamented how "the deluge of false posts in the last two days" has been "something else."