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Washington Journal: Dina Sadek on Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War
Dina Sadek, Middle East research fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, discussed the false claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war that are proliferating across social media platforms.
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Numerous Americans have called in questioning the veracity of this claim that babies were killed in Israel. Everybody knows that Hamas is a terrible group. Everybody knows that innocent Palestinians and Israelis have been killed by bad people throughout this decades long conflict.
In the lead up to the US intervention in Kuwait. After an Iraq had taken over Kuwait, a fake news story galvanized the minds of many people around the world, suggesting that Iraqi troops had removed baby some Kuwaiti incubators. It was proven to be a false story.
THE KUWAITI INCUBATOR HOAX
A Washington Post news story incorrectly stated that Middle East Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch, "had initially embraced the stories" of Iraqi troops killing babies in incubators in Kuwait {"Brown Protege in Confirmation Fight: Fitz-Pegado Queried Over Gulf War Lobbying, Atrocity Claims," Feb. 11}.
In fact, Middle East Watch, both in testimony before Congress during the crisis and in its published reports, never accepted this story. At the outset, we investigated and then dismissed the obviously false tales of hundreds of babies thrown out of incubators by Iraqi troops.
Now, all of us are aware of this alleged incident of the Hamas Soldiers decapitating babies, killing babies. No proof has been shown …its only in reports, and we’d even heard from some Israeli officials they can’t verify the reports.
The point is as many of us know is information is usually the first casualty of war.
Please keep this in mind because there are bad players in both Israel and Palestine providing misinformation. There have been videos of violence against children from different wars and video games being shown all over the Internet to attempt to prove the decapitated babies story from Israel.
All of us should be aware that disinformation is used for both sides in a time of war.
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