Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
False claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war are flooding social media, making it difficult for onlookers to sort fact from fiction. Here are the facts: The Israeli military didn't say in a Facebook post that it bombed a hospital in Gaza, the account was a fake.
While plenty of real imagery and accounts of the ensuing carnage have emerged, they have been intermingled with users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.
Among the fabrications, users have shared false claims that a top Israeli commander had been kidnapped, circulated a false video imitating a BBC News report, and pushed old and unrelated clips of Russian President Vladimir Putin with inaccurate English captions.
Here is a closer look at the misinformation spreading online — and the facts.
The disinformation from all sides is to the point where I’m about to block the keywords Israel and Palestine from my feed and only read the news
Yeah, I've been mostly silent on this because I have no idea what's really happening. People are so strongly opinionated about it, you'd swear they are typing from inside the conflict... but they've really just fallen into one side's propaganda.
I know which side I want to pick, but I can't really do so in good conscience.
Time will tell. Until then, I'm staying out of it
Derp why didn't I remember filters earlier.
Because the news isn't one of the major players in disinformation right...? How did you think, write and submit that comment without realising how dumb it is?
I don’t know what news you’re reading but it’s not AP and Reuters
I don't care what imaginary god you worship, if your imaginary god sanctions the killing of children, you worship a malevolent imaginary god and are yourself malevolent.
Meanwhile, the Satanic Temple and the Church of flying spaghetti monster's death counts? 0
That clearly proves beyond all doubt that both Satan and the flying spaghetti monster are both better, more benevolent, and more well endowed sexually imaginary gods than Allah or Yahweh.