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An Israeli joke about Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s plane crash morphed into fake news after the Hamas terror group’s social media took it seriously.
Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six other passengers were killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of northern Iran in foggy conditions on Monday.
Some time after the crash, a joke circulated on Hebrew social networks that the person responsible was a Mossad agent named “Eli Copter,” [Eli Cobter in Arabic] a play on the Hebrew word for helicopter.
“That began as a humorous online post and quickly spiraled out of control,” social media expert Shlomit Erdynast explained to The Press Service of Israel. Erdynast manages social media accounts for several Israeli non-profit organizations.
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The joke was picked up by one of Hamas’s Telegram channels, which wrote, “It is said that the helicopter pilot was a Mossad agent named Eli Kopter.” The channel in question has more than 136,000 followers and is widely cited in the Arab world.
Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six other passengers were killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of northern Iran in foggy conditions on Monday.
Some time after the crash, a joke circulated on Hebrew social networks that the person responsible was a Mossad agent named “Eli Copter,” [Eli Cobter in Arabic] a play on the Hebrew word for helicopter.
“That began as a humorous online post and quickly spiraled out of control,” social media expert Shlomit Erdynast explained to The Press Service of Israel. Erdynast manages social media accounts for several Israeli non-profit organizations.
Israeli ‘Eli Copter’ Joke Taken Seriously By Hamas Morphs Into Fake News
The same people unquestionably parroting Hamas's fake numbers, repeated the Israeli joke, believing it was real.
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The joke was picked up by one of Hamas’s Telegram channels, which wrote, “It is said that the helicopter pilot was a Mossad agent named Eli Kopter.” The channel in question has more than 136,000 followers and is widely cited in the Arab world.
