Trending - The disinformation war in the Middle East
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
"A flood of disinformation has erupted across social media in the online propaganda battle that’s being waged alongside the physical conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Everything from video game clips falsely presented as genuine combat footage, to the outright denial of civilian deaths, have been deployed to try to skew the online narrative and warp public perceptions.
BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh examine the trends in this alternative war over the Middle East with the help of Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, the independent investigative organisation."
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| 0:00.0 | The Global Story, with Smart Takes and Fresh Perspective, on one big news story, |
| 0:07.8 | every Monday to Friday from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.3 | Search for The Global Story Story wherever you get your BBC |
| 0:14.8 | podcasts to find out more. Over the last few months the war between Israel and Hamas has claimed thousands of lives. |
| 0:45.0 | Around 2 million people have been internally displaced inside Gaza as Israel pursues its response to the 7th of October attacks. If you're trying to follow what's going on, |
| 0:47.2 | you can be faced with a bewildering array of news and information. |
| 0:51.6 | Online, there's a constant flow of claim and counterclaim. Each side is fighting to get |
| 0:58.2 | their version of events across. |
| 1:00.3 | Israel does not target, does not target, I repeat, non-combatants innocent civilians. |
| 1:06.0 | No one can get out from the Shiva Hospital. |
| 1:08.4 | No one can come to the Shiva Hospital situation is very, very dangerous. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm a mother. |
| 1:14.0 | I can't give solutions. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm a mom. |
| 1:17.0 | I can say one thing. |
| 1:18.0 | I want my children back. |
| 1:21.0 | But truth, back. |
| 1:26.4 | But truth can be a casualty in any war. If you go online you can find extraordinary reporting and heartbreaking stories, |
| 1:31.4 | but you'll also find misinformation and deliberate lies. |
| 1:36.5 | So what's going on? |
| 1:40.4 | This is the documentary, and I'm Olga Robinson on BBC Trending. We're looking at power in this episode |
| 1:47.7 | We'll be investigating how online disinformation about Israel and Gaza is being used to try to seize control of the narrative. |
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