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Unpacking viral theories: Censorship, Mojtaba missing, and death hoaxes

Shir Perets debunks viral claims and examines the narratives driving the conversation around Israel and the war.

 Israel CENSORED, Khamenei in Russia, and Trump 'disappears'
LOOKING ON with their son, Barron,  as husband Donald Trump takes the  presidential oath in the US Capitol in  Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.

Trump claims Iran using AI as 'disinformation weapon,' coordinated with US media outlets

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before a hearing of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 14, 2026.

FCC's Carr threatens broadcasters who do not 'operate in public interest' will lose licenses

Displaced Sudanese wait to receive humanitarian aid at the Abu al-Naga displacement camp in the Gedaref State, some 420km east of the capital Khartoum on February 6, 2026.

Sudan defense minister rejects claims aid convoy carried weapons in North Kordofan strike


Combating misinformation: Safeguarding families amid crisis - opinion

Tragically, we all know that eventually, the information will emerge. But that information must be allowed to be shared only once it has been properly vetted and delivered.

People are silhouetted as they pose with mobile devices in front of a screen projected with a Facebook logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.

Fake sexually explicit online images of Taylor Swift alarm White House

Fake sexually explicit images of Swift proliferated across social media this week, including one image shared on X, formerly Twitter.

 Singer Taylor Swift poses for a selfie with fans as she arrives to speak at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9, 2022.

Israel's Mossad shuts down 'baseless lie' spread by Likud MK Tally Gotliv

Responding to Gotliv's claims on X, judicial reform protest leader Bressler said she "is not moved by the campaign of lies.

 Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 18, 2024

Iran regime media faked photo with rabbi to justify killing - analysis

The report Iran then created fake images of the victim with a rabbi to justify his killing appears to illustrate Iran’s regime lurching into antisemitic conspiracy theories.

A man holds up a poster of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani next to a burning Israeli flag as Iranians attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022

Unsure if news is true? Looking it up may make you more likely to believe misinformation - study

The Nature study employed a series of five experiments to gauge the impact of online search engines in evaluating false or misleading views.

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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. 

 Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to logos of social media apps Signal, Whatsapp and Telegram projected on a screen in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018.

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.

 A caricature of Iran controlling Hamas as part of an Israeli campaign on social media.

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.

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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.

 The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 1, 2023

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."

 The entrance to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, May 7, 2023