Frankly I’m just impressed by the actor who managed to play a destroyed hospital
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“It is a means by which you blunt those narratives or the reality on the ground,” said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that studies extremism.
Many accusations involve mischaracterized or out-of-context images, like a photo of a Thai child’s Halloween costume in 2022 and video from a decade-old protest in Egypt that have been presented as evidence that Palestinians are faking dead bodies.
Some denialists baselessly claim the slaughter was a “false flag” planned by the Israeli government — another common conspiratorial trope, closely related to crisis actor accusations.
A clip from the making of a short film, originally posted online last year, has been used by some to falsely claim Israelis are faking deaths, and by others that it shows Hamas staging a killing.
“I don’t think we’re meant to deal with this level of of traumatizing video,” said Mike Caulfield, who studies the spread of viral rumors at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
“One of the big themes of this war is just sort of a mass distrust of any images, real or not,” said Jack Brewster of NewsGuard, which rates the reliability of online news sources.
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