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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Technology
Pranav Dixit

Social media platforms swamped with fake news on the Israel-Hamas war

Disinformation - fake news that is spread deliberately - about the Israel-Palestine conflict has spread across all social networks like X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok [Yousef Masoud/AP]

Hours after Hamas, the armed Palestinian group, attacked Israel on Saturday, X, the social network owned by the world’s richest man Elon Musk was awash with fake videos, photos and misleading information about the conflict.

“Imagine if this was happening in our neighbourhood, to your family,” posted Ian Miles Cheong, a far-right commentator whom Musk interacts with often, along with a video that he claimed showed Palestinian fighters killing Israeli citizens.

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