Gazawood — the Pallywood saga is an X site that analyses reports that are given to Legacy media channels like ABC, BBC, CNN, and of course Al Jazeera, and get reported as fact, when there has been much digital manipulation involved.

There’s nothing new about that — a decade ago Egyptian authorities discovered a “news” team creating fake videos on a demolition site in Port Said, but claiming they were scenes in Syria. An Egyptian state media channel itself tested Al Jazeera by creating a fake story about Egypt and then giving it to Al Jazeera — it was run as fact with no checking.