🤝 A new strategic partnership between Arabi Facts Hub & @RoryPeckTrust to protect & empower freelance journalists in the Arab region. collaboration focuses on: 🪙 Facilitating emergency funds & grants 🛡️ Providing safety & digital security training 🔍 Combating information disorder & disinformation

📊 The Seven Days.. Narratives of the War on Iran are not only about what happened during the war, but about how the war was narrated across Arabic-language news coverage.

📊 A number alone rarely tells the whole story. Percentages, averages, polls, and charts can all shape how we interpret information. But without understanding how they were calculated, presented, or sourced, they can also lead to misleading conclusions.

📊 The word "war" did not appear in headlines as quickly as the military escalation unfolded.

📌 Can a coordinated online campaign turn a controversial diet into one of the Arab world's most widely circulated health narratives?

📊 When a headline speaks about war, whose voice does it choose to begin with?

📊 Iran appeared prominently across coverage of the war, but not always as an actor.

📌 From “Gen Z” to “Midan”… A new report by Arabi Facts Hub maps a network of accounts that amplify political content, campaign hashtags, and leaked materials across social media platforms.

📌 How did the Iran-Israel escalation turn into a digital campaign against Oman? A new report by Arabi Facts Hub examines an online campaign that accused the Sultanate of Oman of "betraying the Arab cause"

📌 More than 11,200 posts in one month! A new Arabi Facts Hub report examines an online campaign targeting refugees in Egypt following discussions between the Hayah Karima initiative and UNHCR on integrating refugees into economic empowerment programs.

📍 From Erbil As part of the “Investigative Journalism and Climate Justice” workshop, Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) delivered two remote training sessions for journalists in Iraq, organized by UNDP and supported by the European Union.

📍 From Baghdad As part of the "Investigative Journalism and Climate Justice" workshop, Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) delivered two remote training sessions for journalists in Iraq, organized by UNDP and supported by the European Union. @undp.org

📊 In parts of the Arab media coverage of the war on Iran, oil appeared louder than blood.

📊 The Seven Days: Narratives of the War on Iran is not only about what happened during the war, but also about how the war was narrated across Arabic-language news coverage.

📊 In parts of the Arab media coverage, Khamenei's assassination quickly became a story about what comes next.

📢 The Seven Days.. Narratives of the War on Iran How did Arab news platforms frame the war during its first days? @anmat-media.bsky.social

📌 In the early days of the war on Iran, news coverage was far from uniform. Different angles emerged, certain narratives were repeatedly amplified, and specific themes dominated the media landscape across Arab and international news platforms. @anmat-media.bsky.social

📌 New Partnership to Support Fact-Checking and Investigative Journalism in Libya Arabi Facts Hub has signed a cooperation protocol with the Libyan Institute for Investigative Journalism to collaborate in the areas of fact-checking, combating misinformation and hate speech, training, and research.

📌 A new international award for Arabi Facts Hub An investigation by Arabi Facts Hub has won the award for Best Countering Disinformation Project in the Middle East at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards.

📌 Two competing narratives dominated Iraqi online spaces after the escalation in Iran. One labeled the PMF as terrorists. The other framed Iran as a source of support. Here’s what the data shows..

📌 Exploring AI in research: from everyday tasks to data analysis As part of the activities of the Arab Network for Young Researchers in Economic and Social Rights, and in collaboration with the Arab Forum for Alternatives,

📢 Last day to apply is tomorrow Don’t miss your chance to join The Climate Journalism Diploma, launched by Climate School and supported by Arabi Facts Hub. A free online program designed to help journalists produce accurate, data-driven climate stories, with a focus on fact-checking and AI tools.

📌 From the webinar “Analyzing Coordinated Campaigns & Tracking Information Disorder” How can we tell real engagement from coordinated activity? In a session hosted by Arabi Facts Hub in collaboration with the Arab Media Innovation Lab (AMIL)

📌 Before you hit “Share”.. pause. Not all viral videos during crises are fake; many are real clips reused out of context, making them misleading without any editing.

Within days, the hashtag “PMF is a Terrorist Organization” dominated X in the Arab sphere. Was it real public opinion or something else? At first glance, the surge looked like widespread anger. But the data tells a different story.

A coordinated Iraqi online campaign pushed pro-Iran narratives during US and Israeli strikes on Tehran. Here’s what the data shows.

📌 A debate on the legality of arms in Lebanon didn’t stay a debate. Within days, it turned into a polarized digital wave on X. Here’s what the data shows 👇

A hashtag framed as “solidarity” quickly shifted into something else. AFH analyzed how a Gulf-focused campaign escalated into calls for deportation. The campaign emerged alongside military escalation between Iran and the US, including attacks on bases in Gulf countries.

From Mobilization to Incitement: How Platforms Reshaped the War on Iran Analysis by Arabi Facts Hub shows that the recent war not only mobilized support but also reshaped public discourse in more complex ways:

The recent war did not stop at military strikes. It also expanded into the digital sphere, where organized networks became active in shaping public opinion through coordinated cross-border campaigns.