Inadvertently sharing fake news
Like many others, I shared a video of Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan carrying a card saying, “The Butcher of Iran will not be missed.” Perhaps part of the reason the video...
Tagged: Fake news
Poland? Making it seem the world is more pro-Hamas than it is
Preparing a collation of “X” posts about pro-Hamas demonstrations around the world, I added this one of Poland to the collection. But when I searched for pro-Israeli demonstrations for a separate collation, I realized...
Masafer Yatta: How to Get the Most Punch out of B’Tselem Lies
It’s kind-of funny. It doesn’t matter what happens in Masafer Yatta, the area of the South Hebron Hills that has been in the news for almost a solid year. Whatever happens can be twisted...
i24 News: One Easy Way to Verify Trustworthiness of a News Story
Using Google to search for news reports of the latest incidents of alleged settler violence, I found a short list of recent articles, including one on i24 News. To my surprise, I discovered that...
Jurassic Park Author Dedicated Entire Novel to Fake Media Before Fake Media was a Thing
In 1996, Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Andromeda Strain fame published a lesser known novel called “Airframe“. The novel is about an airplane failure that threatened to bring down an...
Journalists, War Crimes, Fake News — Is There a Connection?
Fake news has become a “thing”. How can we know when we are being fed fake news? Especially when a particular journalist has a good reputation and the news outlet in which he or...
Industry of Lies: Answer to fake news and fake academia
The subject matter of this book can make your blood boil. But reading it made me smile. First of all, the title is quite unique in our contemporary world: Industry of Lies: Media, Academia,...
