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Senior journalist at BBC Verify | disinformation, conspiracy theories, verification, AI, open source investigations, extremism | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk

Oct 8, 2023, 7 tweets

Thread: Day two of online misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict

This video, viewed 1.3 million times, falsely claims to show senior Israeli generals captured by Hamas. It actually shows the arrest of Karabakh separatist leaders by Azerbaijan's security service.

Here's the thread highlighting misinformation from the first day of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Please DM or email me any videos, images or posts you come across that might be misleading.

This video of the spokesman of Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades, viewed 1.3 million times and widely shared today, is unrelated to current conflict.

The video is from 2014, not now.

This video doesn't show Israeli paratroopers over Gaza. It's from 2016, and shows paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st airborne division of the US army perform static line jumps in North Carolina.

This is not a video of Palestinian fighters landing in Israel. This clip is filmed in Egypt, and the building in the background is a military academy in Cairo.

That's not a video of Israel striking targets in Gaza. It shows the town of Ariha in Syria being targted by Syrian government forces.

This video has been repeatedly shared since yesterday with claims it shows the current conflict in either Israel or Gaza. But it shows neither.

It's a video of celebrations by supporters of CR Belouizdad after winning the Algerian football championship title.

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