After an uneasy ceasefire agreement was reached between Israel and Palestine, digital terror did not abate. Online hatred, harassment and coordination of physical violence have sprouted in social media channels. An Israeli group fighting disinformation and hatred cannot proceed quickly enough.

FakeReporter has sent reports on online threats from its office in Israel to the Israeli authorities in order to prevent them from becoming a reality. A group of gatekeepers composed of about 10 researchers, activists and online investigators, most of whom are volunteers, have dug up false information and false accounts on the Internet. They used to focus on state-sponsored disinformation and were caught off guard by the growth of digital hatred within Israel.

Executive director Achiya Schatz told BuzzFeed News: “We are a false information surveillance organization, so in a sense, we are not ready for this situation.”

Online hatred captures only part of the ongoing violence.In battle, Israel’s rockets Killed 248 Palestinians, Including 66 children. Thirteen people in Israel, including two children, Was killed A rocket fired by Hamas. A ceasefire agreement was reached on May 21.

But for FakeReporter, the conflict clearly shows that differences within Israeli society have led to online hatred and physical violence. Their team has been working all day and night, categorizing violent messages, many of which are crowdsourced through their website. Another organization, Democracy Group, Which is helpful for research.

Schatz said: “At present, we shoulder the mission of saving lives.”

For the past two weeks, they have been watching the hate speech that has turned into street violence. They are monitoring nearly 100 WhatsApp and Telegram channels, most of which are in Hebrew. Shatz said that violence has occurred throughout Israel, including violence against Jewish residents, but far-right Israeli extremists are more organized.

Shatzl said: “Be prepared for this kind of violence, because I think the trend of racism in Israel has been on the rise for several years.”

On May 12, in Bat Yam, a seaside town south of Tel Aviv, A vicious mob attacked a man. FakeReporter watched this incident when it happened in the Telegram channel they were monitoring and it was broadcast live on TV. This is what the National Broadcasting Corporation tells. Lynching. victim About to spend a night on the beach, a person was looking at the car window. The car window was stuck in the car and asked if he was an Arab. When he said “yes”, he was dragged from the car and beaten as people shouted and filmed the incident on mobile phones.

The father of four survived, but was eventually hospitalized and seriously injured. “I’m going to the beach [for] Break time.I didn’t know I would return to my children like this,” the victim Tell Channel 12 News, Israel’s top news station. “Why should I blame? What should I do? Is it my fault that I am an Arab-born person?”

Ori Kol, the co-founder of FakeReporter, saw this scene on TV and Telegram. “We tried to see what they were doing because they were uploading photos of what they saw and uploading violent photos to Telegram.”

Shatz said that before the attack, FakeReporter submitted reports to the Israeli police on the second and the second day of the attack, showing that extremists threatened to beat people in Bat Yam. The news that the surveillance organization saw was clear: “I hereby invite you to participate in the large-scale brawl against the Arabs at the Bat Yam Promenade at 6 pm today. One person said: “Bring appropriate equipment, swords, and swords , Guns, stones, planks, cars with anti-collision bars. “

Despite the warning, FakeReporter researchers can only monitor when the violence occurred. Schatz said: “No one was sent to the ground.” “Then something terrible happened.”

In the days following Israel’s deportation of Israelis from East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and the Al-Aqsa mosque being hit by a storm, the extremists rejoiced with the weapons and expressed How to provide advice via Telegram and WhatsApp channels. According to the screenshots seen by BuzzFeed News, they posted photos of knives, guns and truncheons, and posted racist remarks, incitement, false information and coordination of when and where to meet.

Cole, who monitors some of these groups, said: “This is really a deadly atmosphere on the streets.”

Right-wing forces like Yair Netanyahu, the son of the Israeli prime minister, incited tensions. There are more than 130,000 followers on Twitter, which is a telegram channel, Added 1,500 followers In the past two weeks, he and a podcaster both played in Israel a role similar to that of Donald Trump Jr. in the United States: rallying his father’s online supporters and spreading hatred to their opponents.

After the Israeli army blew up a 12-story building in Gaza, the Israeli military claimed that it contained “Hamas military intelligence assets“(It no respond American officials requesting evidence), destroyed AP and Al Jazeera’s offices and residences, and Yair Netanyahu intensified its attacks on the media. (In a statement after the incident, the Associated Press Say “There is no indication that Hamas is active in or in buildings.”)

on May 19, He posted a cartoon on Twitter, which showed a group of people gathered around the drinking fountain, a man holding a rocket launcher standing between them. The woman said to the man with the rocket launcher: “Sheila works for Al Jazeera and I work for the Associated Press.” “How about you?”

Yair Netanyahu has also retweeted reports from American right-wing influential figures including Ben Benpipiro, Dinesh D’Souza and Andy Ngo, as well as news media such as Breitbart and Federalist.

A family spokesperson told BuzzFeed News: “Yair Netanyahu used his social media platform to provide an independent voice to the millions of conservatives in Israel who were rejected by the established Israeli media. People have a high degree of prejudice against the right.” “Your article marking his followers as’extreme right’ is a perfect example of this kind of media distortion in most right-wing counties. Your smear work on Yair only shows why you need to be like him. Such an independent voice.”

On May 15th, on the same day that the Associated Press and Al Jazeera were bombed, Yair Netanyahu called for media executive Avi Weiss on Twitter. Protest in front of his house. The prime minister’s son then posted a flyer calling for protests outside the media office, saying: “We will no longer brainwash anti-Zionists.”

The protest was cancelled due to the subsequent outcry, but FakeReporter noticed that people shared screenshots of Yair Netanyahu’s tweets. At least two people discussed on the video that going to the executive’s home or the media office is a better choice. On Sunday, Yair Netanyahu again called for protests against members of the media.

In recent days, the Israeli media have become victims of violence. Four reporters were attacked, According to the Jerusalem Post, Including a photo from the public broadcasting company broadcasting the Bat Yam attack.

“When we have finished sexual intercourse with Arabs, we will have sexual intercourse with the media,” said a message in a chat in The Telegraph. Others called for the destruction of the studio and called Channel 12 “Al Jazeera on the Hebrew Peninsula”, which was promoted by Yair Netanyahu, expressing sympathy for Hamas.

Tehilla Schwartz Altshuler, head of the media reform program at the Israel Democracy Institute, said that Yair’s messages are often annoying for Israeli far-right groups. He researched Israeli social media and consulted FakeReporter.

She told BuzzFeed News: “I am worried, I am afraid.” “Because I personally think this is a very delicate dog whistle, and right-wing extremists and right-wing militants are very aware of the news that appears on Twitter. They will They took it to WhatsApp or Telegram, and then suddenly became a call to action.”

And when the building is attacked Horrified international observer, It Inspired extremists in IsraelSupported by Yair Netanyahu’s tweets, they took screenshots and distributed them.

“Our main contribution to these telegraph organizations is that in the past few days, right-wing elements in these organizations have really begun to target what they consider to be unpatriotic and treacherous media directed at the media. [behavior],” Cole said.

Cole said that on Channel 12, the personal phone number of a distinguished reporter and host Dana Weiss (Dana Weiss) was posted on an online forum with words such as “Congratulations on her job. Good” information. Other texts called her “the spokesperson of the jihadist organization” and scattered photos of her serious photo shopping wearing a headscarf.As a result, she Received dozens of threats of violence, Including death threats.

Kol saw online hatred repeatedly leading to offline violence.

He said: “The violence started spreading online and on the streets.” “This is what we saw in the work of FakeReporter. This is the main lesson we have been trying to deliver. Unfortunately, on a global scale, targeting The business of online heuristic lynching is booming.”