This video, falsely claiming to show a Palestinian "crisis actor" seriously injured one day and fine the next has been viewed tens of millions of times.
Those are two different men, and the hospital video is from August.
See how many millions of views this totally false claim has got. It was also tweeted by the official Israel account.
One is Saleh Aljafarawi from Gaza who can be found on Instagram, and the other is Mohammed Zendiq, 16, from the West Bank, who lost his leg at a hospital in July.
This video, viewed 1.4 million times, falsely claims to show thousands of US marines landing in Israel tonight to join the war against Hamas.
The video is from June 2022, and shows the 101st airborne division arrive in Romania for a Nato mission.
Jackson Hinkle is spreading misinformation again. These are not "breaking" pictures of US air strikes in Syria right now.
These images are from March, and show US strikes against an Iran-backed group in Deir el-Zour, Syria; fact-checked by @ContextFall.
This video, with 370,000 views here, is being shared widely tonight as footage of missile attacks on Tel Aviv.
The video shows Israel's Iron Dome intercepting rockets over Ashkelon on 11 October.
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Plenty of genuine images documenting the destruction in Gaza have been published since the conflict began.
This, however, isn't one of them. This is an AI-generated image that's been viewed millions of times today.
Upon the expansion of Israel's ground operation, this video is being widely shared as strikes in Gaza tonight.
The video is from 2021 in Yemen, and has nothing to do with this conflict; fact-checked by @no_itsmyturn and @Info_Rosalie.
The claim that Delta Force, a special operations unit of the US army, is currently fighting on the ground in Gaza has racked up millions of views tonight.
There's currently zero evidence any US troops are fighting in Gaza.
This image has gone viral in pro-Isreal circles, claiming to show a fake Palestinian corpse caught texting on his phone.
Let's go through the image verification process step-by-step, using Google's reverse image search.
Where does the photo come from and what's the context?
On the Google homepage, click or tap on the camera logo on the right.
Either paste the URL of the post that features the image into the box, or save the image on your device and then upload it yourself.
I usually prefer to save and upload.
Google will start to bring up the same image from other web pages. Use the crop feature to narrow down your search if needed. Then click on "find image source".
Click on and check the results one by one. You want to ideally find the earliest use of the image online.
Thread: Online misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict - Day 9
This video, viewed 450,000 times, falsely claims to show Syria's Aleppo airport hit by Israeli missiles.
But the video isn't current, and was posted to Facebook in August; fact-checked by @AuroraIntel.
This video, viewed a million times, claims to show an aid convoy being stopped from going into Gaza.
But the video is from May 2021, during the last Israel-Hamas conflict, and shows an Egyptian aid convoy heading towards Gaza.
H/T @EekadFacts @Jay_Beecher
This video, viewed over a million times, falsely claims to show live footage of 500,000 Israelis attending an anti-war protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The video was filmed in March, during a protest in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial reform plans.