How is the Al-Hadath news network destroying relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
Al-Hadath is a Saudi-owned television channel that recently reported that Iran was planning to transfer millions of dollars to Hezbollah on Mahan Air flights from Tehran to Beirut. The news was the main source of tension at Beirut International Airport and unprecedented security measures against Iranian passengers, which also sparked protests in Lebanon in response to the issue.
Fake News
Fake news means news that is untrue, fabricated, fraudulent, incorrect, and unreliable. The definition of fake news is: “News that are deliberately false, that are identifiable as false, and that are intended to mislead the audience. Today, one of the common behaviors of state-run media is to create news and deliver fabricated and false news. Sometimes fake news has its roots in reality, but the reporting of how it occurred has been mixed with lies.
Such news is similar to fake news, rumors, or untrue and fabricated content that existed in oral societies or in the era of the boom of mass media such as television and radio. What has caused fake news to become more and more popular is political and communication approaches, as well as people’s access to new tools that have provided the opportunity for fake news to spread virally, or go viral. The characteristics of fake news can be summarized in three cases:
1- Inconsistency with the truth: all or part of the text is incorrect or lacks objectivity while presenting the truth
2- Intention to deceive: deliberately produced and published to deceive the news audience
3- Purposeful: having personal or non-personal political, economic, and cultural motives and interests