The world today is a rapidly changing and controversial place to live in. With AI on the rise, threatening certain jobs and some people’s futures, and with the 2024 Presidential Elections coming up, it is almost certain that important topics such as these will cause division and controversy in our modern world. 

Considering the significance of some issues that we face nowadays, there is bound to be large amounts of misinformation circulating around the media in an attempt to try and change people’s points of views. 

An example of this is the current ongoing war in Israel. Certain online groups try to create fake videos, or re-edit older videos to paint the other side in a bad way.

A significant majority of those videos have been proven false thanks to the publicity that they have received.

A post on ‘X’ aka Twitter, stating “HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of U.S. Marines Just Landed in Israel WW3 HIGH ALERT” got over nine thousand likes and many retweets and replies before it got taken down shortly for spreading misinformation.

The post claimed that thousands of U.S marines have landed in Israel, but that was proven to be not true, and the “WW3 HIGH ALERT” part is just an attempt to capitalize on people’s fears.

“The original can be found on the Defense Department’s media distribution website, which says it shows U.S. Army soldiers arriving in Romania in June last year. “101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Soldiers arrive in Mihail Kogalniceanu, Romania, June 28, 2022,” reads the video’s description,” Associated Press writer Karena Phan stated.

If the post wasn’t removed and proven to be false, then it could’ve falsely changed many people’s opinions and standings on the issue.

Media posts like the one mentioned above are a problem in our modern society. We are being fed both truth and lies by different organizations every day in an attempt to change our opinions to benefit them, and we don’t even realize it. Instead of brainless scrolling and listening to every single person online, we should try to do our own research and come up with our own opinions.