The Battle Against Misinformation

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The violence that erupted in Israel and Gaza this past weekend has spawned a hurricane of misinformation. So, we’re fact-checking some of the early claims and posts about this war of the words from here in Canada. Plus, having the conversation you can’t have - we continue to explore the topic of empathy, Palestine, and Israel in a double-header episode to give it the attention it deserves.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Jess Schmidt (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Emilie Nicolas

Further reading: 

• OSINT: Shayan Sardarizadeh, Journalist at BBC Fact Checking
• OSINT: Reuters
• 'It smells of death here': Surveying the atrocities committed by Hamas in Kfar Aza - I24
• The anti-Trudeau hate farm based out of Cairo - Canadaland
• Editorial | Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War - Haaretz
• Liel Leibovitz: Us and Them - Tablet

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