The 'Palestine' Hoax Ruthie Blum MAY 11, 2025
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i24News got it wrong, but that didn’t stop other outlets from running with the item before reading the article on which it was based
(May 11, 2025 / JNS) Non-Shabbat-observant Israelis awoke on Saturday to fake news that, in Winston Churchill’s witty words, “got halfway around the world before the truth had a chance to put its pants on.”
The baloney began with coverage by i24News of an item that appeared in The Jerusalem Post. So much of the Hebrew channel’s morning broadcast was devoted to what it was touting as a huge deal that other outlets picked it up and ran with it.
Ditto for social media, of course.
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