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@Shayan86
Jun 10, 2020 • 14 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
NEW: This week's Disinformation Watch newsletter covers stories about #GeorgeFloyd protests and #coronavirus. It brings together the work of our anti-disinformation team in @BBCMonitoring, @BBCtrending and @BBCRealityCheck.
Read the online version here: trib.al/ht4UCTC Image
First up is a roundup of some of the most widely shared misleading posts, images and videos in relation to #GeorgeFloyd protests in the US. A fake White House image, an old video reshared without context and rumours that the protests were staged
bbc.co.uk/news/52934672
What's up with all the bricks near protests sites? This piece covers the mystery of viral videos of piles of bricks in different US cities plus conspiracy theories about @georgesoros "funding" the protests and claims of Russian interference
bbc.co.uk/news/52877751
@Facebook removed a number of Justice for George Floyd groups after @BBCNews highlighted some, run by accounts seemingly based in Vietnam and Bangladesh, had posted misleading images, while others had previously focused on coronavirus and 5G conspiracies
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts for spreading claims about a Washington DC “blackout”. Thousands of tweets with #DCBlackout claimed communications had been blocked in the city to cripple protests, despite there being no evidence of a blackout
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
The BBC's anti-disinformation has found links between coronavirus misinformation and assaults, arsons and deaths. Experts say the potential for indirect harm caused by rumours, conspiracy theories and bad health advice could be much bigger
bbc.co.uk/news/stories-5…
As coronavirus cases spread through African countries, misleading information continues to be shared on social media and online. Here are some of the stories that have been widely shared recently
bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Hundreds of fake or hijacked accounts have been pushing pro-Chinese government messages about coronavirus on @Facebook, @Twitter and @YouTube, a BBC investigation has found. The majority of the accounts, pages and channels have now been removed
bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
Some accuse @BillGates of leading a class of global elites. Others believe he is leading efforts to depopulate the world. Still more accuse him of making vaccines mandatory, or even attempting to implant microchips into people
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Some 649 posts featuring misleading health advice and conspiracy theories about 5G were reported to Facebook and Twitter, but 90% remained visible afterwards without any warnings attached, according to a report from @CCDHate
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Speculation about a future coronavirus vaccine is ramping up and social media posts from anti-vaccination campaigners are gaining more traction online. The BBC's anti-disinformation team debunks a few recent claims
bbc.co.uk/news/52847648
@Twitter accused @realDonaldTrump of making false claims. It refers to a tweet about Mr Trump’s first defence secretary and follows another confrontation which saw Twitter fact-check two of the president’s tweets and label another as glorifying violence
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
This newsletter features reporting from the BBC's @JackAGoodman @FloraCarmichael @mariannaspring @O_Rob1nson @alistaircoleman @BenDoBrown @EtutuJoice @MwaiPetrov @janewakefield @ruskin147 @davemolloy @shrutimenon10 @bluu2k @Wanyuan_Song @lauragzzi
You can subscribe to our newsletter by sending a DM to @alistaircoleman, @O_Rob1nson, @BBCMonitoring or me. Our DMs are open. The next edition of our Disinformation Watch newsletter will be published on 23 June.

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Mar 26
Thread: Baltimore Bridge collapse misinformation

Pro-Kremlin influencers claim the captain of the Dali ship is a Ukrainian.

But online records show a Ukrainian man was the Dali's captain from March to July 2016. The ship that hit the bridge reportedly had an all-Indian crew.


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Claims by influencers such as Alex Jones and Andrew Tate that the Baltimore Bridge collapsed due to a "cyber-attack" have been viewed millions of times.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore has said the early investigation points to an accident, with "no evidence of a terrorist attack".

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This video, viewed 1.4 million times, claims to show evidence of pre-installed explosives causing the Baltimore Bridge collapse.

What the video shows is not explosives, but most likely electrical wires catching sparks. Image
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Dec 20, 2023
DC Weekly, a website founded by a former US Marine now living in Russia, has fuelled disinformation stories about Zelensky and Ukraine, including a fake story that he bought two luxury yachts with US aid money, later repeated by some members of Congress.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
These are just a few of the disinformation stories published by DC Weekly about Zelensky and Ukraine recently.

They all follow the same pattern: an obscure YouTube video featuring false claims, an article on DC Weekly referring to that video, and viral posts on social media.


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All of those articles featuing false claims about Zelensky and Ukraine are written by Jessica Devlin. According to DC Weekly, she's a "highly acclaimed journalist" from NYC.

Except, that's the image of author Judy Batalion. Jessica Devlin is a fake persona. She doesn't exist.
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Dec 15, 2023
A vast Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @DFRLab.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
Back in the summer, this video, featuing an AI-generated voice, racked up millions of views on TikTok and later on Twitter.

It falsely accused Ukraine's former defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov and his daughter Anastasiya Shteinhauz of buying a a €7m villa in Cannes, France.
We debunked the viral video back in July. The villa seen in the video wasn't bought by Reznikov, and was actually up for sale.

So, @O_Rob1nson, @adkrobinson and I tried to find out more about the account that originally posted that video to TikTok.
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Nov 28, 2023
The meme shared by Elon Musk about the pizzagate conspiracy theory is itself based on the completely false claim that James Gordon Meek, a journalist who recently pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, had debunked pizzagate. Meek never reported on pizzagate.
The completely false claim that James Gordon Meek had debunked pizzagate was spread back in the summer by QAnon followers, like this blue tick account.

The New York Post has never published such a story about Meek. It's a totally fake image and a made up headline. Image
Elon Musk has once again fallen for a completely false claim, this time based on a fabricated New York Post headline pushed months ago by conspiracy theorists on his own platform.

If he'd done a simple check before tweeting, he'd have found out the whole thing was false.
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Nov 20, 2023
Thread: Israel-Hamas war misinformation - Day 45

This video, viewed over 3 million times, claims to show an Israeli settler run over protesters.

The video's from 9 September, during a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial reforms, and involves no settlers.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/car-plows-into-anti-overhaul-protesters-blocking-tel-aviv-highway-injuring-one/
This video claims to show two "terrorist" Palestinian journalists reporting near a rocket launcher.

The two are in fact Syrian journalists and the video is from 7 October. They reported retaliatory strikes against the Syrian government, after it killed 65 civilians in Idlib.

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While Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital has been described by the WHO as a "death zone", the claim that all the premature babies there have died is inaccurate.

Two premature babies tragically died over the weekend, while 31 have now been transferred to an Emirati hospital in Rafah.
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Nov 15, 2023
Thread: Israel-Hamas war misinformation - Day 40

Hannah Abutbul, an Israeli influencer, is being falsely doxxed as the woman in the misleading video of a supposed nurse at Al-Shifa hospital speaking out against Hamas.

I spoke to Hannah earlier. She's not the woman in the video.

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This digitally altered video, viewed 13 million times, falsely claims to show an advertising in New York in which "support Ukraine" is replaced by "support Israel".

No such ad exists. The real ad right now is about the upcoming Trolls film, via @macrinawang @RitornellaNYC.
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WARNING: GRAPHIC

This image, viewed 370,000 times, falsely claims to show a Palestinian child shot dead by Israeli troops while fetching water.

This tragic incident happened in Yemen in 2020, and the child was allegedly shot by a Houthi sniper. She reportedly survived.
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https://www.khabaragency1.net/news130780.html
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