Fake news
Pakistan alleges Israel and India spread disinformation linking it to Bondi Beach attack
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said sections of the international media from what he described as hostile countries, sought to malign Pakistan.
Pakistani minister says 90% of social media content is false, urges crackdown
Pro-Palestine networks use AI deep fake celebrity profiles to spread political messages - report
White House launches official media bias, 'left-wing lunacy' tracker
Letters to the Editor March 13, 2023: Blatant omissions
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Americans tend to share fake news to fit in socially, French study reports
“Conformity and social pressure are key motivators of the spread of fake news,” said lead researcher assistant Prof. of decision sciences Matthew Asher Lawson
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Sharing news on social media can stop you knowing what's true - study
"Just asking people whether they want to share things makes them more likely to believe headlines they wouldn't otherwise have believed" - Dr. David Rand, a professor at MIT and co-author of the study
Iran mobilizes misinformation about school poisonings - analysis
Iranian pro-regime media are afraid that the regime will be blamed, so they have deployed a number of theories about what happened in order to distract attention from the events.
Israel artifact bearing name of King Darius the Great revealed to be fake
The forged "artifact" was discovered earlier this week after a foreign researcher left it behind at the excavation site last summer.
Can Israel stop ex-intel agents from breaking human rights, democratic elections? - analysis
How can the Jewish state prevent its former intelligence agents from using their skills in the private sector in violation of human rights and democratic elections?
True stories get more Reddit upvotes than fake news - Ohio study
Posts on the social media site Reddit with news articles fact-checked as true got more engagement, positive reactions than fake news, but the opposite was true on Twitter.
Aliens will take over all governments in May 2023 - TikTok 'time traveler'
TikToker Aery Yormany, a modern-day Nostradamus, has made bold and outlandish predictions about the future, and an alien invasion may be among the tamer ones.
Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Is Iran encouraging illegal acts in Israel over judicial reform? - opinion
Israeli disinformation watchdog claims it found a network of 80 fake foreign Twitter accounts encouraging people to commit illegal acts as part of judicial reform protests.
