In the nearly three years since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and tortured, raped, murdered, and imprisoned innocent Israeli citizens, we’ve been treated to countless claims of Israeli depredations in its reprisals that have turned out to be bogus. But none is as bewildering as the claim that Gazans were being starved to death.
In 2023, the New York Times reported that “The deluge of online propaganda and disinformation is larger than anything seen before, according to government officials and independent researchers.”
It noted that Iran, Russia, China, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, to say nothing of Hamas itself, “have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel.”
The Times itself earlier regurgitated Hamas propaganda about a hospital bombing only to admit that “early versions of the coverage … relied too heavily on claims by Hamas and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.”
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