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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over social media faster than journalists like BBC Verify’s Shayan Sardarizadeh can check it. That’s exactly how digital propagandists want it, says professor and social media expert Marc Owen Jones. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Israel baraged Gaza with airstrikes today.
0:05.0	Meanwhile, three aid convoys carrying food, water, and medication
0:10.0	entered Gaza through its border with Egypt.
0:12.0	The Biden administration is urging Israel to
0:15.2	delay a ground invasion. It wants more aid to enter Gaza and more time for
0:20.5	Hamas to free the hostages it's holding.
0:23.0	Okay, that is the news on the war.
0:26.0	All of that is true, verified, fact-checked.
0:29.0	Thank you, Laura.
0:30.0	But so much else here is not.
0:33.0	Why this war became a haze of misinformation.
0:37.0	Most of the content that has come from,
0:39.0	this world hasn't been necessarily by professional journalists with a camera person and recording.
0:45.0	It's been actual ordinary people with their smartphones just taking videos of what's going on and putting it online.
0:51.0	And then obviously that needs to be verifying.
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