Mike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
The bombing of a Gaza hospital on Tuesday has illustrated how quickly misinformation has been weaponized in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
"Hamas immediately reported to the international community that this was carried out by Israel, that there were hundreds of people that were killed, without any checks and balances. The challenges is, is that many media outlets in the international community took what Hamas said as if it is a reliable source. A terrorist organization that has just massacred the Israeli population," IDF spokesman Maj. Doron Spielman told the Washington Examiner.
By the time Israel came out with its conclusions, however,"the damage had been done," said Spielman. “The damage is not just that they defamed Israel. The damage is that they misinformed their audiences and also caused enormous series of uprisings around the world." "As you know, we are experiencing an extremely volatile and tense situation in the region. Emotions have been running high for days now, and in the fog of war, it can be easy to get caught up in the fast pace of events on the ground," Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., told the Washington Examiner.
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