Libya battles also rage on social media

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TRIPOLI: On Libya’s front lines, fighters often hold a gun in one hand and a smartphone in the other, using their cameras in the propaganda war. Since...

: On Libya’s front lines, fighters often hold a gun in one hand and a smartphone in the other, using their cameras in the propaganda war.

Images of wounded, killed or imprisoned fighters are immediately published by one side or the other as they try to prove their supremacy on the battlefield. Last week, unity government spokesman Colonel Mohamad Gnounou even accused Haftar’s forces of “infiltrating certain places, taking pictures and then withdrawing” so they could claim online to be in control of a particular site or neighbourhood.This week, an American who had become an unlikely celebrity in Libya took to the Internet to deny reports by Haftar’s LNA that he had piloted a Libyan fighter plane as a GNA “foreign mercenary pilot”.

Last week, three videos circulated — all purportedly shot at the same time, in the same place on the front line, but with completely different messages.A third clip, whose authorship remains a mystery, showed the unlikely scene of fighters halting combat and embracing each other, crying “united Libya”.

Not surprisingly for a country riven by multiple conflicts since the fall of late dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, Libya also has armies of online trolls who spread hatred and incite violence.

 

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