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    Iraq is fertile land for fake news, but the price may be high

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    Iraq is fertile land for fake news, but the price may be high Empty Iraq is fertile land for fake news, but the price may be high

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    Baghdad - (AFP) - Conspiracy theories, attacks, and the Covid-19 epidemic ... topics under which many false news are circulating in Iraq, especially through social media, that may cause tension in a country that has known decades of wars and crises, so the need to refute them has arisen. .
    In front of a large number of screens and behind their laptops, three employees of the Monitoring Department of the Media Department of the Ministry of Interior watch the vast amount of daily news broadcast on television and social networking sites.
    The task of these people is to identify suspicious news and transfer it to the rumors section in the department, which in turn coordinates with the official authority concerned with the published news, as the head of this department, Brigadier General Nebras Muhammad, explains to AFP from his office, to deny or confirm it.
    The department, in turn, publishes denial or confirmation data on its Facebook page, which is followed by more than 34 thousand people out of 25 million users of social networking sites in Iraq in 2021, according to the "Data Portal" Center for Statistics.
    Ironically, Facebook is the main source of fake news in Iraq, which often deals with the "trend", meaning whatever is popular.
    This was the case, for example, when an image spread on the grounds that it was the Chinese "Long March 5B" missile, which was lost earlier this month, in the skies of Iraq, to ​​discover later that it dates back to the year 2019 and has nothing to do with the missile, as the news health investigation department of the agency discovered France Press.
    As worldwide, the rumors also included conspiracy theories related to the Coronavirus and vaccines.
    "There are hundreds of pages of different names circulating false posts" on the Blue site in Iraq, one of the founders of Technology for Peace, which specializes in refuting false news, and who preferred to remain anonymous, explains.
    Many of the distributed pages carry the names of news agencies and outlets, such as “Iraq Pulse,” and another named “News Agency” for a given region in the country. But they are not really news agencies or licensed media.
    - 'Battleground' -
    Fake news becomes an "almost daily trend," as the founder of Technology for Peace explains in a phone call to Agence France-Presse.
    Some of them are humorous and do not cause harm, such as the news of “a young man from Mosul marries four girls in one day,” which was refuted by “Technology for Peace,” so that it appears that the image used in the news is a propaganda for a beauty salon.
    The motive for spreading other false news is to get more likes. When the burning tragedy of Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad occurred about a month ago, pages began dealing with false news about the burning of other health institutions to attract users.
    On the other hand, other news "comes in the context of a specific trend, political for example," as the founder of "Technology for Peace" explains.
    Here, fake news is no longer a source of joke only, but rather becomes a political propaganda tool stemming from electronically organized campaigns, in a country that witnessed a bloody sectarian war between the years 2006 and 2008 and four years after it emerged from the war against the Islamic State.
    The founder of Technology for Peace notes the existence of “organized campaigns on thousands of pages, especially Twitter, with political objectives regardless of the party” behind it, whether it is from the pro-Iranian factions, or from other parties, on which “millions of dollars” are spent.
    Thus, “Iraq has become an arena for a struggle for fake news,” between regional, international or domestic parties, as he explains.
    In late August 2020, for example, sectarian rhetoric spread on Twitter and Facebook following rumors that the owner of a car loaded with explosives had been arrested in Dhi Qar, in the predominantly Shiite south of Iraq, and was promoted because he came from Tikrit in the north, which is predominantly Sunni. .
    On the other hand, other pages said that he is from Dhi Qar and belongs to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Shiite factions loyal to Iran and affiliated with the state. The discussion did not end until the official authorities lied the two versions.
    And after the Tayaran Square attack in the capital in January, organized campaigns attributed to technology for peace to “electronic armies” on communication sites, accusing Riyadh of being behind the attack. Then I published a photo of a Saudi who was accused of being one of the suicide bombers involved in the attack, so it turned out that the photo was of a jihadist who blew himself up in Dammam in 2015.
    - A long way -
    This applies to news related to the early parliamentary elections next October, where rumors have already started circulating about it, such as talk about incorrect alliances or nominations.
    In front of this, the rumors department in the Ministry of Interior reinforces “field campaigns”, by distributing leaflets to passers-by warning about false news and the legal consequences of publishing them periodically, as Brigadier General Nebras Muhammad explains to Agence France-Presse, stressing, “We also cooperate with bloggers of web pages to spread awareness.”
    But these campaigns are not enough in a country where the official media was the only source of news and information before 2003 under the rule of the Ba'ath Party regime, while the laws that punished them date back to the era of the previous regime.
    Amid this shortage, the 24-year-old Abdullah, who like other people of his generation browses his phone for hours, is forced to check the news himself. “I don’t trust the news I’m reading at first glance, but I’m looking for its source, whether it is governmental or otherwise,” he tells AFP from a Baghdad café.
    The process of combating rumors requires more complex mechanisms, such as cooperation with social media companies.
    There is a draft law to combat information crimes in the halls of parliament, which includes rumors and false news, but it raises controversy and “may undermine the right to freedom of expression in Iraq,” according to Human Rights Watch.
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