Also a video from Switzerland: This fake news about the war in Israel is circulating

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As soon as a war breaks out somewhere, misinformation (in short, fake news) circulates on social media. What reached new heights during the Ukraine war now continues in the conflict between Israel and radical Islamist Hamas. A few days after the outbreak of the war, there were tons of fake information or information taken out of context, especially on X (formerly Twitter). Now EU Commissioner Thierry Breton (68) reminded X boss Elon Musk (52) of the obligation to delete illegal content in a letter.

A video is circulating on the Internet showing a solidarity rally with Hamas in Zurich this weekend. According to various sources, hundreds of people celebrated the attack on Israel. In fact, the video is from May 2021, as revealed by “SRF Investigative”. At that time, solidarity rallies for Palestine were held in many cities in Switzerland.

According to Blick’s report, a few radical Muslims also attended the rallies at that time and there were calls for a boycott against Israel. But it is wrong for hundreds of people in Zurich to show solidarity with Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel this weekend.

After SRF revealed that the video had been taken out of context, it was removed from multiple platforms and various tweets featuring the video were deleted, although the video continues to circulate elsewhere.

On Saturday, a video purporting to show attendees of a music festival attacked by Hamas in southern Israel circulated on X. “Festival-goers running for their lives,” reads the text bar above the video material. Only: The video is not from the music festival in question, but from the concert that US musician Bruno Mars (38) gave in Tel Aviv a few days before the Hamas attack, as shown by the Reuters news agency. Fans wanted to get the best seats as soon as the concert venue opened and rushed to the stage to do so.

A video posted on Facebook and X shows a girl allegedly taken hostage by Hamas. But as Reuters discovered, the video was already circulating on TikTok in September, before Hamas’ latest attack.

Also over the weekend, news broke on X that the White House had approved $8 billion in military aid to Israel. Various accounts further spread the message by citing a press release from the White House that was later revealed to be fake, as reported by the AFP news agency, among others.

Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of users saw an alleged post on X from the Israeli newspaper “Jerusalem Post” claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (73) was in the hospital. It was later revealed that the account that distributed the tweet was fake. This was also evident from the misspelling of “Jerusalam Post” with an “a” instead of an “e”. The fake account has since been blocked on X.

Source :Blick