People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6589988

The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation::People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

  • flossdaily@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Disinformation about Israel is practically all anyone ever sees.

    Consider that there are less than 16 million Jews in the world, and 475 million Arabs/ 2 Billion Muslims.

    In this conflict that’s largely viewed as Jewish vs Arab or Jewish versus Muslim, Jewish voices are drowned out by either 30:1 or 125:1.

    Israel is the only country in the region where lesbian Muslim woman can wear what she wants, vote, live in peace, and become an elected official.

    But when you have 30:1 voices in the world making bullshit claims of apartheid, posting misleading infographics, and generally creating an atmosphere of overwhelming 1-sided sentiment it’s really easy to see why Israel is vilified.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s possible both sides are full of shit. It’s what happens when one side starts using what the other side views as immoral methods. The side that feels the injustice may feel like they have no other option or even have the moral right to reciprocate. It then becomes a race to the bottom. I don’t know enough about the Jewish religion but it seems like this conflict has an eye for an eye written all over it