Fake news

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


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.

Injured Gaza baby photo which has been proven to be AI-generated.

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".

Marina Ovsyannikova attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, July 28, 2022.

Cancer misinformation is harmful to women’s health

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

TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022.

'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.

Former US President Donald Trump addresses The Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2023 "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, US, June 24, 2023.

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.

Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, holding a sign referencing QAnon, speaks as supporters of US President Donald Trump gather to protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election

Meta identifies Iran and Turkey's network of ‘adversarial threat’

The company ‘removed 22 Facebook accounts, 21 Pages and seven Instagram accounts for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior’

 The logo of Meta Platforms is seen in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022.

Don't criticize Ben-Gvir for false racism. Call out his actual racism - editorial

Itamar Ben-Gvir made shameful and abhorrent remarks about an Israeli Arab journalist. Why is that being ignored instead of something Ben-Gvir never even said?

 Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2023.

‘The Great Dismissal’: How Israel, the US got to be in a post-truth era - review

How is it that “populism” has become so rampant in so many countries these days with leaders destroying democracies and yet claiming, falsely, that they are ensuring democracy in their countries?

 President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017.

German man accused of posing as a Jew and peddling fake, antisemitism-laced Holocaust story

Central Council of Jews in Germany: "The damage done by such charlatans to such an important project is great."

 The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

'Adam and Eve' theory: Catastrophe as Earth's magnetic poles reverse?

The "Adam and Eve" theory is gaining momentum on TikTok, according to which every 6,500 years a disaster on the scale of the biblical "flood" strikes the Earth. Is it true?

 'The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man’ by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, circa 1615