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    Commentary: Misinformation about the Israeli-Hamas war is rampant. Here’s how to fight it

    The fog of the Israeli-Hamas war is made more intimidating by the thick mist of misinformation. What are smart news consumers, and impressionable students in classrooms nationwide, supposed to do as rampant falsehoods spread as we begin to observe U.S. Media Literacy Week? NewsGuard, the anti-misinformation company I work for, is toiling 24/7 with a tsunami of wrongheaded claims about the ...
    by Jim Warren, Chicago Tribune Oct 24, 2023 3 minutes
    Palestinians look for survivors in the rubble of a building after Israeli strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 23, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group.

    The fog of the Israeli-Hamas war is made more intimidating by the thick mist of misinformation.

    What are smart news consumers, and impressionable students in classrooms nationwide, supposed to do as rampant falsehoods spread as we begin to observe U.S. Media Literacy Week?

    NewsGuard, the anti-misinformation company I work for, is toiling 24/7 with a tsunami of wrongheaded claims about the conflict. The fog and mist sweep globally by social in these false or unsubstantiated print and video claims:

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