Misinformation on Reddit

Today, I saw on reddit a post that had 15 thousand upvote on religiousfruitcake proclaiming, without facts, a theme park is being made on a public grave of Palestinians by "Israeli Jews for Jews". It had an uncited video accompanying it, showing a crying Muslim women at a cemetery.  

This is the closest thing their is. A communal walk-way and garden being built was being built near what are believed to be human remains, and now Muslim Arabs in the area were protesting and then rioting over it. The gravestone on the video had to be fake, so the video couldn't have been real (or at least from it), or else the situation wouldn't exist. 

A misinformation post about Jews with about 15 thousand upvotes, calling them heartless murderers. Earlier this week a Palestinian terrorist fired on Israeli's, no post about it. Joshua's Alter was possibly damaged before, no post. This is the kind of stuff which makes me worried about people seeking information on social media-it can be so easily manipulated for hate, and even look real. 

This is not the first time for reddit, either. Amongst other things, their was a post in r/publicfreakout which claimed to show Israeli soldiers putting a gas grenade into a Islamic prayer. The “soldiers” had no Israeli insignia (they were in blue outfits), and all you could hear was Islamic chants. No context was given, or a source to where the event took place. Not even a Twitter of someone who recorded it. It just supposedly happened. Even more so with a video claiming Israelis were worse than Nazis because an Arab-Israeli Knesset member was injured in a violent protest. Nazis did not let press take pictures, did not have opposition party members, and certainly did not let Jews live. They would never even let ANYONE protest, and certainly not attack police. The double-standards comparing a group running the government and protesting FOR MORE police intervention in their communities to fight Arab crime rates, and a genocidal regime which killed over 6 million Jews is astounding. It’s openly evil people forgot the truth. I wouldn’t be surprised if nations such as Iran and Qatar have a role in promoting lies, either. 

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