X (Twitter) is flooded with false information about the 'Palestinian-Israeli war,' and even unrelated videos and game footage are spreading.



On October 7, 2023, Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip, carried out a large-scale attack on Israel, killing at least 900 people and injuring 2,400 others . On the other hand, the Israeli side also took harsh retaliation, and a large-scale armed conflict broke out. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel has entered a state of war . As a result, graphic videos and images depicting battles and their victims have been circulating on SNS such as X, but it has been reported that there are a large number of false posts mixed in. Many of the posts in question have been corrected using the community note function, but the spread of false information continues to go unchecked.

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Elon Musk's X adds to fog of war at outset of Israel-Hamas conflict | CNN Business
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/tech/musk-x-misinformation-israel-hamas-conflict/index.html

X criticized for enabling spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/09/x-twitter-elon-musk-disinformation-israel-hamas

Foreign media CNN reported on October 9, 2023, ``48 hours after the surprise attack on Israel by Hamas extremists, misinformation is rampant on Elon Musk's social media platform 'Musk himself is known to share false and misleading claims about social media and spread misinformation,' the report said.

Below is one of the posts that are said to be false. The footage is said to be a scene in which Hamas fighters shoot down an Israeli helicopter in the Gaza Strip, but a community note points out that it is from a game called ARMA 3 released in 2013.



There are other posts that misidentify game footage as real.





Below, a blurred video of a man executing a victim while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' is posted, but this was taken in Syria in 2016.



The video below, which is said to be ``Israelis making a fake video of ``Palestinian freedom fighters killing children,'' was actually filmed from Netflix's `` Fauda - Chain of Retaliation. '' It has been pointed out that the language spoken by the staff is also Arabic. In addition, 80% of people in Israel speak Hebrew and 20% speak Arabic, both of which are official languages of Israel.



The photos below are purported to show Israel using white phosphorus, which is internationally banned, but the community note states that both images are from the past and have no relation to the current conflict. I am.



The footage purportedly showing the fire in the Gaza Strip was taken while Algerian soccer club CR Belouizdad was celebrating the victory, and is unrelated to the current conflict.



The video below of a building collapsing is indeed from the Gaza Strip, but it is an old video taken in May 2021.



In addition, videos of Palestinian militants parachuting into Israel are being circulated as ' Real PUBG ,' but these are videos posted on TikTok as videos of Egyptian military exercises.





The video below shows a child being kept in a cage. The post says 'kidnapped Israeli child', but other posts point out that the footage was taken at least before the conflict began, and another post says the footage was filmed in Syria in 2015. There is also.



'Israel is trying to impose a 'total blockade' on the Gaza Strip. We must not forget that there are innocent people living in Gaza as well,' the post reads, appearing to show footage of an airstrike. Attached is a video from 2021, when the Israeli military reported that 4,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip.



Musk's statements are adding to the confusion caused by this false information. According to the foreign media The Guardian, Mr. Musk introduced the two accounts on October 8, 2023, saying, `` @WarMonitors and @sentdefender are the best for tracking war in real time.'' However, these two accounts frequently posted misleading information, such as spreading false information that the US Department of Defense building exploded in May 2023.

Musk later deleted the offending post and added a post on @WarMonitors that described Gaza fighters as 'martyrs': ''Martyr' is not an objective or accurate word, and 'martyr' is not an objective or accurate word, and 'That doesn't mean it was,' he countered.



Emerson Brooking, a researcher at the American think tank Atlantic Council, told CNN: ``Paid verification badges mean it becomes difficult to tell the difference between vetted journalists and fraudsters.'' , expressed the view that X's monetization program was an incentive for incitement and fraud.

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