{"id":1191119,"date":"2023-10-11T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191119"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:44:06","slug":"users-mistake-video-game-clips-for-real-israeli-war-footage-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191119","title":{"rendered":"Users mistake video game clips for real Israeli war footage on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A misleadingly captioned Arma 3<\/em> video shared on X now sports a “context” note on its real origins. (credit: X \/ Arma 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Footage from the 2013 game Arma 3<\/em> is spreading virally across multiple social media sites, presented as real spectator video of ongoing military actions between Israelis and Palestinians. The misleading videos are part of a wave of war disinformation that has run rampant across social media<\/a>\u00a0and highlights just how realistic the heavily modded game can appear at a glance.<\/p>\n

Examples of this trend are not hard to come by. A 22-second clip on X<\/a> garnered over 10.4 million views as footage of “Israeli helicopters getting smashed.” But the clip was originally posted as a YouTube short on October 3<\/a>, where it was correctly labeled as Arma<\/em> footage. That didn’t stop that same clip from spreading widely among Indian and Turkish Facebook users<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another X video<\/a> with millions of views shows Arma 3<\/em> footage of a shoulder-mounted rocket launched at a helicopter, labeled as “Hamas fighters shooting down Israel war helicopter in Gaza.” X-user Shayan Sardarizadeh has debunked that footage<\/a> as well as other examples<\/a> of game footage that have been taken down as of press time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Users mistake video game clips for real Israeli war footage on social media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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