New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: Mr Mohamed Aliff Tusliman is on a mission to find unfiltered, unbiased and “more real-life content” on the ongoingThe dominant social media app provides information “recorded live or posted by individuals who are actually on the ground”, said Mr Aliff.
The clip’s caption, in Hebrew, said Palestinian militant group Hamas was to blame, and contained the hashtag #freeisrael. “For me, a general rule of thumb is to never 100 per cent believe anything on social media regardless of the platform, especially with all the artificial intelligence tools ,” said Mr Aliff.
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ surprise attack in early October, over 40,000 fake profiles took part in the conversation on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, according to scans by Israel-based social media threat intelligence company Cyabra. While the proportion was smaller in Singapore , this was after a spike of five percentage points from last year, the biggest increase among most-used platforms in the country.
Mr Harris Zainul, deputy director of research at Malaysia’s Institute of Strategic and International Studies , said the shift towards TikTok for news speaks to a larger change in media consumption habits. But in the week that followed, the journalist started seeing clips on her For You feed that clearly contained misinformation. They often featured legitimate footage from past military conflicts or tragedies – but paired with misleading captions.
Elsewhere, a TikTok profile named War News posted a video – still up online – purportedly showing Gaza being bombed by Israel at night. Multiple commenters have since corroborated the footage to be of the US attacking Iraq 20 years ago. “From our observations, misinformation and disinformation on the conflict largely originates from outside Singapore,” the spokesperson said. “In Singapore, we have observed that members of the public are often only reposting content related to the conflict, rather than creating it.”
The video he posted included a screenshot of an X post claiming a top Israeli general had been captured by Hamas. But this was debunked by news agency Associated Press, which reported that the general had been spotted in both a photo and video of top Israeli military officials in discussion.Malaysia-based TikTok accounts have also shared inaccurate information on the Israel-Hamas war.
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