How pro-Israel trolls created fake news about a child drowned by the Israeli army
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31/05/2021 - 12:44 Lots of people shared this photo of a little boy, claiming that he had been killed in Gaza. It turns out, however, that this is actually the photo of a little boy named Grégory, who died in France under mysterious circumstances in the 1980s. His photo was picked up and used by a pro-Israeli Facebook group in a complicated ploy. © Observers / Ed Chirac Text by: Alexandre Capron 9 min It’s a textbook case of online misinformation – on May 21, someone tweeted a photo of a little boy they claimed had been drowned by the Israeli army. However, the photo was actually of a boy known as “petit Grégory” or “little Gregory,” who died in mysterious circumstances in France in 1984, in a case that made headlines. It turns out that a pro-Israel group on Facebo
Comment des trolls pro-Israéliens ont créé une fausse information autour de la photo du petit Grégory
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Conflit israélo-palestinien Polémique autour d une photo du petit Grégory Villemin détournée sur Twitter
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