Fact Check: Misinformation on social media fueling Israel-Gaza war

Misinformation being spread on various social media platforms is fueling the Israel-Gaza war!

Following Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, keyboard warriors are busy spreading fake information to mislead social media users.

Whit the baseless claims, including miscaptioned imagery or altered documents, is no more than an effort to shape public perception against the suffering of Palestinian people who have been under siege for decades.

Such false claims have been debunked by the news agency Reuters.

Reuters has fact-checked some of the widely shared claims in English, Hebrew, and Arabic languages.

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Thousands of people on social media ended up watching unrelated footage of Egyptian paratroopers skydiving over the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo, which was miscaptioned after Hamas launched the October 7 surprise attack.

A video filmed three days prior to the Hamas attack, showing fans of US singer Bruno Mars running into a Tel Aviv concert ground to see him perform, has been doing rounds with claims of the music festival attended by thousands in the Israeli kibbutz of Reim was one of the gunmen’s first targets after breaching the Gaza border fence.

There is more to the pro-Israeli propaganda!

The certain video that first appeared online at least four days before October 7, shows a person speaking in Hebrew and describing the scene as showing Orthodox Jews leaving the Western Wall after prayers.

However, following Hamas’ attacks, false claims were made by sharing the above-mentioned video to show Jewish people fleeing as air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem. Though it was unrelated to the October clashes.

Here is a  screengrab of an altered image of a White House memorandum from July that is spreading misinformation online.

US President Joe Biden did not authorise $8 billion in military aid for Israel, while many people online falsely claimed it by pinned to an altered image of a White House memorandum from July, in which Biden approved $400 million of aid to Ukraine.