Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts (apnews.com)

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[-] SeaOfTranquility@beehaw.org 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those are just technical details. Misinformation about the IDF-Hamas war is so insane, you can't even look at "reputable" mainstream media outlets without getting ahistorical analysis, zionism or antisemitism. We are witnessing ethnic cleansing and cruel war crimes here because all the parties who had the possibility to prevent this decided not to. Instead of focussing on the historical context and the steps necessary to deescalate this conflict, the media is focussing on the question of which acts of violence are justified and which aren't.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 22 points 11 months ago

TikTok is listed on so many of these. Amazing how that platform continues to exist and people actually get their news from there.

[-] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

Amazing how that platform continues to exist

There's a lot of really engaging shot-form content on the platform; most people assume it's just a firehose of what you see when you log in anonymously.

and people actually get their news from there

It's a poor substitute for a healthy set of reading, but it's also a way people put things happening "now" online. Not unlike choosing your broadcast or print media, the results can be really interesting or really misleading (or both; okay, often both)

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

It's also, like other social media, easily and continuously manipulated to social engineer your worldview. Please try to avoid getting your news from social media, especially tik tok, but also Facebook, reddit, Instagram, Lemmy, Twitter or mastodon, etc.

[-] Overzeetop@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

ALL media is easily and continually manipulated to social engineer your world view. If you can name an outlet which is free of sociopolitical bias on sociopolitical topics I’m all ears. Every act of commentary is exposing a position, whether it be left, right, corporate, status quo, centrist, or any other area of ideology. Not recognizing that every source has a bias is dangerous.

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

While true, it's a false equivalence. Getting news from multiple news sources is less controllable of you than getting your news from 'multiple sources' filtered through social media algorithms targeting you.

Further, you can often browse news in a private fashion. You can be fingerprinted, sure, but it's easier to mitigate with multiple news sources than fingerprinting in social media, especially when you get to accounts on both. And lets be realistic, someone getting their news from tik tok is being tracked hard in ways they would have no way of predicting from multiple data sources and with phone information that they don't realize they are providing.

Someone watching CNN or fox news or abcnews or what have you is not even close to being manipulated in the same way, even if they are being provided a biased data set.

Social media news is the worst of both worlds.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Amazing how tiktok is not outright banned in most countries. When I first heard of the platform years ago I thought for sure it would be banned everywhere yet here we are.

[-] greaterthanstupid@dmv.social 6 points 11 months ago

please don't think that i am claiming any of this is fake, but isn't that also what a misinformation campaign would say?

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

misinformation

noun

Wrong information; false account or intelligence.

Untrue or incorrect information.

Information that is incorrect.

Would be a pretty bad misinformation campaign if they were telling the truth.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

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In the days since Hamas militants stormed into Israel on Saturday morning, a flood of videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.

The administration deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, which sailed to the Eastern Mediterranean on Sunday carrying approximately 5,000 sailors and a deck of fighter jets.

THE FACTS: While Hamas did employ paragliders to get some fighters across the border between Gaza and southern Israel, the footage of the sports field shows parachute jumpers in Cairo, Egypt, and has been online since at least September.

Details of the video also point to Egypt as the location — a person is wearing a blue shirt that reads “El Nasr SC” on the back, the name of a sporting club in northeastern Cairo.

The first shows Putin at a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council in December 2022, where, amid discussions about the war in Ukraine, he responded to a question about the country’s potential use of nuclear weapons, as the AP reported at the time.

Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, told the state Tass agency Saturday that Moscow has been in touch with “all parties (of the conflict), including Arab countries” and was urging for “an immediate cease-fire and peace.”

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[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 11 months ago

Heldamned misinformation campaigns.

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