Spencer Soicher joined the ABC 10News team in July 2023 as a multimedia journalist.
Thousands of miles away from the conflict, American social media feeds are filled with photos and videos from Israel and the Gaza Strip.The videos and even information coming out of the Middle East are plenty horrifying, but not everything gaining traction online is entirely true.
"One of the reasons that misinformation, disinformation, and fake news spreads is it's designed to be clickable. It is designed to entice you into it," he adds. Spitzberg says when you're trying to verify if something is real, you need to see who is reporting on it. Ideally, a mainstream media source, or multiple sources.
"We like, it when we get engagement from other people, we just like it," she says. Ceylan agrees that misinformation and outrageous claims generate clicks, and people enjoy getting that reaction. She believes the posters don't care if they're wrong because there isn't punishment from the sites, like X, that host the claims.
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