Israel-Hamas War Lets Loose a Deluge of Falsehoods on Social Media

Leading U.S. Jewish orgs launch effort to correct mainstream media falsehoods about Israel For years, social media platforms have wrangled over how to tackle fake news and misleading information, which proliferates after the outbreak of conflicts such as Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine. But researchers say a unique landscape has been created for information warfare, one in which out-of-context or doctored imagery of wartime horrors goes instantly viral. This has been supercharged by users’ hunger for real-time updates and the fraught nature of the Israel-Hamas War. The, leading U.S. Jewish groups launched the 10/7 Project this week to address…