Entertainment One (sale to Lionsgate pending).The X post has been labeled with a user-generated fact check pointing this out, but has been viewed a million times and remains on the platform despite replies urging the poster to delete or correct it. The caption claims it depicts a 'Hamas terrorist with kidnapped Jewish baby girl in Gaza.'īut many users quickly pointed out the video was originally posted on TikTok in August and bears no indication that it depicts a kidnapped child and a terrorist. One video posted on Sunday by the co-chair of a group that calls itself Republicans Overseas Israel shows a man playing with a baby. But it's unclear how much impact those fact checks have. X has emerged as a particular locus for bogus claims and mischaracterized videos and images, as owner Elon Musk has removed many guardrails against the spread of false and misleading narratives.Īfter cutting much of X's trust and safety staff, Musk has said the site will rely more heavily on user-generated fact checks to address falsehoods.

Middle East Israel unleashes attacks on Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages' lives to insinuate war crimes,' said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that studies extremism. 'The violent content that is being pushed out across a range of different social media platforms as well as as well as encrypted messaging apps is being used to essentially to gloat, celebrate attacks, as well as. Misleading posts born of fear and confusion are being amplified within a broader online information ecosystem inundated with graphic, violent footage posted by Hamas, Israeli military forces and supporters aligned with both sides. And this vacuum of information entered all kinds of interest groups, fear, confusion and conspiracies,' said Achiya Schatz, executive director of FakeReporter, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks misinformation.

'Once we saw the events happening, the war started, there was a void of information. World Hamas' attack is a staggering failure for Israel's intelligence and security forces

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