The disinformation war in the Middle East - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service

Описание: A flood of disinformation has erupted across social media in the online propaganda battle that’s being waged alongside the physical conflict between Israel and Hamas.

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Everything from video game clips falsely presented as genuine combat footage, to the outright denial of civilian deaths, has been deployed to try and skew the online narrative and warp public perceptions.

BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh examine the trends in this alternative war over the Middle East with the help of Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, the independent investigative organisation.

00:00 Introduction
01:58 Eliot Higgins from investigative website Bellingcat
02:25 Fake videos of war taken from video games
06:16 Denialism - when reality is falsely dismissed as fake
12:56 Some online attempts to deceive have unintended consequences
15:37 How disinformation is used

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Presenter: Olga Robinson
Reporter: Shayan Sardarizadeh
Producer: Ed Main
Editor: Flora Carmichael
Thumbnail credit: Reuters
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