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


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?

 Israeli perspective on artificial intelligence (Illustrative).

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.

 Reddit app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021.

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.

 Alien UFOs are seen attacking a city on Earth in this illustrative image.

Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

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.

 A WOMAN in an Ashdod home ponders the damage from a Gazan rocket attack in May 2021. Iranian activists infiltrated WhatsApp and Telegram groups and inflamed tensions between Jews and Arabs during Operation Guardian of the Walls, says the writer.

Lessons on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the Holocaust at Theresienstadt

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS: Officials and Jewish leaders gathered in Prague and Theresienstadt to discuss fake news, conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

 THE ENTRANCE TO Theresienstadt.

Israeli researcher finds method to track deviant Internet user groups

Ben-Gurion University cyber researcher pioneer method to track groups that spread malicious or fake news that could work on any network or platform

A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo

Why the Twitter files revelations are important - analysis

Recent revelations about how social media giant made decisions around the 2020 US election are only the tip of the iceberg.

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

Disputed ‘morality police’ abolishment reveals media’s challenges with Iran - analysis

The Iran “morality police” story is an example of Iranian media wanting to report a story that may be part of a feedback loop.

 DEMONSTRATORS NEAR THE Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, on Wednesday, hold placards during a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

Netanyahu uses empty voting centers photos from 2019 to encourage voting

The message shared by the Likud leader stated that right-wing voting percentages were down used photos from the 2019 elections to illustrate his point.

 RIGHT: Photo from the September 2019 elections shared by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. LEFT: The same image is shared again by Netanyahu, only this time he claimed it to be from November 2022.