Fake news

Why do people believe disinformation? The right mindset to confront it

Psychological research has identified several contributing factors including personality characteristics, social contexts, affect, and cognition. 

Keyboard warriors: Fighting for Israel's digital story

The FM’s David Saranga and Sapir Levi tell The Media Line how Israelis are working to spread the message and combat misinformation, where there is much negativity, but also hope.

By FELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE
02/12/2023
Fake news

In the battle for Israel-Hamas war narrative, truth falls away

In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, even doctors and journalists have shown explicit anti-Israel bias in the current conflict.

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE
25/11/2023

Controversy surrounds reports of Israeli baby found burned alive in oven

FakeReporter continues to maintain that it has not yet been able to independently verify the story of the baby burned in an oven.

Galilee Medical Center bans BBC from premises

The British broadcasting team was supposed to film in Nahariya, but hospital staff are angry about the biased coverage of the war and announced: "They will not enter here until further notice."

By YOAV ETIEL/WALLA!
20/10/2023

Fake news exposed: Injured Gaza baby photo has been proven to be AI-generated

The new version of the AI art generator DALL·E 3, has reservations about generating images symbolizing Israeli advocacy, like a robust Israeli soldier with an eagle and the country's flag.

19/10/2023

Russian prosecutors want to jail fugitive TV journalist for 9-1/2 years

Marina Ovsyannikova is famous for bursting into a news broadcast with a placard that read "Stop the war" and "They're lying to you".

By REUTERS
03/10/2023

Cancer misinformation is harmful to women’s health

Misinformation about cancer is spreading on TikTok and it's harming women.

'Stretching' facts in a post-truth era harms politicians' credibility - study

With increasing scrutiny on global government policies in a “post-truth” era, policymakers are being forced to justify their actions and validate reasons for their decisions.

Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, holding a sign referencing QAnon, speaks

People who use personal feelings to determine truth more likely to believe conspiracies - study

Results revealed that individuals who hold relativistic conceptions of truth are indeed more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

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