As the situation in Gaza worsens, regulators and analysts say a wave of online disinformation risks further inflaming passions in an electronic fog of war.

Reuters fact-checking unit has identified numerous cases of social media posts using fake images and information, and others in which confusion rather than deliberate disinformation appears to have heightened tensions.

An X account under the name Farida Khan claiming to be an Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza posted a message saying they had a video of a “Hamas missile landing in the hospital” in Tuesday’s incident.

Al Jazeera subsequently alerted social media users that the account had no ties to the news service. Al Jazeera said it does not employ a person with the name Farida Khan. The account was later removed.

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