More from @HonestReporting

Dec 7

There is real suffering in Gaza. But some of the “evidence” going viral isn’t real at all, and millions of people are forming opinions based on manufactured scenes.

One viral clip showed a little boy shivering from the cold as his father pleaded into the camera. But the full video shows what was cut out: the boy suddenly stops “shivering” once he thinks the camera is off. It was staged.

Another widely shared image showed children standing in floodwater with rubble behind them. But one detail gave it away: a child with his head on backwards. This wasn’t footage from Gaza — it was AI-generated content passed off as real.

Read 5 tweets

Dec 6

1/ CNN didn’t publish an investigation – they published a lesson in how to spot media misinformation.

Easy checklist: emotional images, sweeping accusations, anonymous sources, no hard proof.

Case study: CNN’s “bulldozed corpses & mass graves” story on Israel. 🧵

2/ CNN claims Israel “targeted aid seekers” and “buried Palestinians in mass graves.”

Source? “Authorities there” in Gaza + CNN citing its own report.

Translation: Hamas institutions → CNN → CNN → headline verdict.

3/ What CNN memory-holes: In 2024, multiple outlets reported Hamas dug mass graves near Shifa & Nasser to deal with executions and battlefield deaths.

Those graves vanish from this “investigation.”

Read 8 tweets

Dec 1

🧵 Campus Antisemitism Is Evolving, Not Ending

1/ A Gaza ceasefire doesn’t mean peace on campus. The new frontlines of antisemitism are being drawn in universities - in classrooms, student unions, and lecture halls.

2/ At Princeton, a course titled “Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide” will teach students that Israel is committing genocide - based on debunked UN claims and a false story about Israel “destroying embryos.”

This isn’t scholarship. It’s propaganda.

3/ The course also compares Gaza to the Holocaust - a morally bankrupt inversion that trivializes the industrial murder of six million Jews.

No credible educator should teach this.

Read 11 tweets

Nov 24

1/ Reading Sally Hayden’s description in @IrishTimes of her time in two south Lebanese villages, you’d think the IDF attacked them without cause.

Her own video footage includes this billboard of a "martyr commander."

And there’s more. 🧵

2/ Another image from a Lebanese village, possibly another "martyr."

Note the logo in the top left corner, which appears to be that of Hezbollah.

3/ One of the villages is Ayta al-Shaab. Even a cursory internet search reveals that the IDF said it had destroyed 103 terror targets, including 51 tunnel shafts & 9 rocket launchers, with tunnels reaching approx 25m deep.

But Hayden doesn’t mention that. jpost.com/israel-hamas-w…

Read 4 tweets

Nov 13

1/ 📰 “Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years,” @guardian claims.

But a closer look shows the headline and the article tell only part of the story — and not the most important part. 🧵

2/ The Guardian bases its report on a @PacificInstitut study about global “assaults on water.”

But instead of presenting the global findings, it turns the study into a narrative almost exclusively about Israel.

3/ How misleading is that focus?

Israel accounts for 12% of the alleged global water-related incidents in the study.

Russia accounts for 16% — yet gets two paragraphs. Israel gets the headline and nine.

Read 9 tweets

Nov 12

1/ 🚨 BBC in Crisis.

Two top execs – Tim Davie & Deborah Turness – forced to quit after a bombshell dossier exposed bias and even doctored footage of Trump.

You’d think that would spark real change, right?

WRONG. 🧵🎥

2/ Instead of accountability, BBC’s highest-paid “journalists” – and even some of its famous former ones – are playing the victims.

From Jeremy Bowen to Emily Maitlis, the reactions say it all. 👇

3/ First up: @jeremybowen.

Rather than own up to the damage he’s done to the BBC’s credibility, he previously said he “doesn’t regret one thing” about his false reporting of the Al-Ahli Hospital blast in 2023.

That lie spread across the world. No regrets. No shame. 🎥

Read 8 tweets