Celebrities become targets of pressure campaigns
Paris Hilton's decision to remove a tweet condemning the killing of Palestinians in Gaza and undo a retweet of a Middle East Eye video of a child breaking down over the bombing of her neighbourhood has raised more than a few eyebrows, especially as the decision remains unexplained.
Meanwhile, Palestinian-heritage model Bella Hadid was the subject of false accusations by an official Israeli account. The @Israel account falsely claimed that the star called for throwing Jewish people into the sea. Hadid made no such comment.
You can read about the incidents in our write-up here.
Israel’s official social media account falsely accused Bella Hadid of wanting to throw Jewish people "into the sea".
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 17, 2021
Several social media users called on Twitter to take action against the misinformation spread by the account https://t.co/3EAiFXdQi7