Online misinformation and disinformation proliferate as Israeli and Palestinian officials blame each other for the war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – A murky war of disinformation is being waged online by both Israeli and Palestinian supporters attempting to control the narrative in the wake ofIn viral posts since debunked, a Facebook account masquerading as the Israeli military’s Arabic-language page claimed responsibility for the blast.
Spreading alongside real stories of human suffering are shocking but unverified accounts that have sometimes entered mainstream political discourse before they are deemed factual. BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh demonstrating that an image purportedly of deceased Palestinian children is unrelated to the current war. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM SHAYAN86/X
Israeli disinformation watchdog FakeReporter demonstrating that a viral TikTok video of children in cages pre-dated Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM FAKEREPORTER/XA conspiracy theory alleging that Hamas had help from inside Israel in planning the Oct 7 attack has spread across social media, according to a study by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab published on Oct 12.
“Hamas will conduct an information campaign that emphasises the brutality of the Israel Defence Forces’ operation on Gaza, while Israel’s government will report on Hamas’ terrorist tactics to consolidate the legitimacy of its ongoing operation,” he said. The misinformation and disinformation surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, while not necessarily of a larger scale than past conflicts, are “particularly virulent”, said Prof Jones.One contributing factor is that social media platforms have “backed away from user safety and content moderation, meaning that there is less censorship of fake news and hate speech”, he said.
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