There's also information we're going on and both sides want to win it by sharing whatever

is confirming their own narrative.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This week, a guide to sifting fact from fiction about the Israel Hamas conflict, like how

to spot fake posts.

Very often it's just typed out with no link, no article name just below it, it might say

BBC World or something like that, but not a link to the source.

Also on the show, a month ago, Israel and Saudi Arabia were in talks to quote, normalize

their relations.

Then the war began.

The idea of Saudi Arabia recognizing Israel has gone from unimaginable to about to happen

to unimaginable again.

Kingdoms roll in the current Middle East crisis and more, it's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Michael Aunger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Many researchers have noted, I'll just summarize, that the malstrom of mis-dissinformation

circling the sliver of land comprising Israel and Gaza is the most fettin case of garbage

in, garbage out, since the invention of social media.

And why wouldn't it be?

Those platforms grow ever larger and faster, technological tools ever more capable of convincingly

faking evidence, and what's more, the major political players in the conflict are not

just lied about, they lie too.

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