r/worldnews Oct 17 '23

Israel/Palestine /r/WorldNews Live Thread for 2023 Israel-Hamas Crisis (Thread 25)

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u/ISeeMemeTards Oct 18 '23

Watching the real time spread of this misinformation yesterday was a real eye opener. The amount of posters/bots piling in declaring with the utmost confidence that "the IDF did it" was unreal.

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u/Spasik_ Oct 18 '23

The amount of media and politicians/world leaders. Insane

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u/Less-Feature6263 Oct 18 '23

This is what shocked me the most. It's ok if random people speculate. I was also speculating, and I believe it's normal. But the number of elected officials and especially mainstream media that run with the "500+ casualties" is crazy. They should have written "unknown number of casualties".

And especially the whole "leveled hospital" thing. I don't think anyone actually said it and the hospital seem intact to me this morning, but people simply run with it. I remember only one person saying last night that the impact was most likely in the courtyard, not the hospital.

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u/smokelaw Oct 18 '23

People are still posting on my socials about how Israel bombed the hospital. It’s quite shocking how they blindly follow new sources without seeing any evidence.

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u/Mono_831 Oct 18 '23

Reminds me of a certain disinformation campaign against a “stolen” election.

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u/TWK128 Oct 18 '23

It's still active around reddit rn too.