While plenty of real imagery and accounts of the ensuing carnage have emerged, they have been intermingled with users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.
Among the fabrications, users have shared false claims that a top Israeli commander had been kidnapped, circulated a false video imitating a BBC News report, and pushed old and unrelated clips of Russian President Vladimir Putin with inaccurate English captions.
Here is a closer look at the misinformation spreading online — and the facts.
Yeah, I’ve been mostly silent on this because I have no idea what’s really happening. People are so strongly opinionated about it, you’d swear they are typing from inside the conflict… but they’ve really just fallen into one side’s propaganda.
I know which side I want to pick, but I can’t really do so in good conscience.
Time will tell. Until then, I’m staying out of it