I can share some, for Twitter/X at any rate. Employees of Rebel Media (far-right Canadian media org with an agenda) have been caught organizing the posting of old footage of IDF incursions in the West Bank and Gaza dubbed over (poorly) with soundtracks of Arab men laughing to make it look like Palestinian militants were caging Israeli children, knocking down doors, and otherwise being inhumane.
This tweet calls them out on it and has screenshots of the posts in question:
Their Wikipedia page has other misinformation they’ve done in the past, but my edit to include this bout of disinformation was just rolled back, apparently because this behavior was documented and called out by an independent journalist and not published by mainstream media:
>I can share some, for Twitter/X at any rate. Employees of Rebel Media (far-right Canadian media org with an agenda) have been caught organizing the posting of old footage of IDF incursions in the West Bank and Gaza dubbed over (poorly) with soundtracks of Arab men laughing to make it look like Palestinian militants were caging Israeli children, knocking down doors, and otherwise being inhumane.
The core issue is the type of person who's viewing snuff films and the like, to the point they're in the muck when folks like me are waiting a few days for an editor to decide how much we need to see.
I remember walking into Phar Mor after the Oklahoma City Federal Building was bombed, the dead baby on the cover.
People were angry -- said it was obscene.
But it made things change.
Not the bombing -- but seeing the aftermath.
Then folks pointed out worse had happned in the gulf but... I don't know how to escape these cycles when in the time from when you form memories to the time you can vote, so many conflicts have been started and no one ever wants to stand down when they're on the side with more resources and weapons.
Someone gave me a book to read about the early days of Israel, and they talk about how when they were going back and forth, the rabbi told the settlers do not go out tonight, do not relatiate, do not continue this cycle.
Flash forward, and people would talk about concern about mosques near ground zero but never the churches who do minor terrors so many more times over that do not make the news.
In fact, the main reason I abandoned one of my boyhood dreams is someone from the FBI straight up told me they'd never investigate the white nationalists, and that by the time I'd finished handing fake TNT to Tunisians, my IT skills would be as atrophied as my personal relationships.
And then they came and groped my girlfriends and rolled a tank through little Italy and expected not so much as a peep the next Easter Egg painting?
Entitled violent fascists, horrible in body, mind and soul.
Life is not black and white but... let's not lose sight that there are people consuming this media the way they consume a horror film.
Generally, social media companies have agreed there is some responsibility to remove false content and coordinated misinformation. That certainly seems to be happening, and linking to particular misinformation just spreads it further, feeding the trolls.
Hard to disagree with a blanket “avoid misinformation”. But I guess that's the point.