Old habits never die: Russia spreading fake news about Israel’s judicial overhaul – Despite Facebook’s commitments, fake news posts about American involvement in judicial overhaul protests remain posted in Russian and in Hebrew; similar fake news campaigns appeared in US and France in the past | ynetnews

Posts spreading fake news and incitement against Israel and the United States continue to appear regularly on Facebook’s feed, Ynet has learned. This phenomenon is a continuation of the campaign by fake news distribution networks to impersonate legitimate Israeli news sites. Although Meta pledged to act vigorously to prevent the spread of fake news, the task has proved to be challenging. In addition, most of the distribution of these posts is apparently carried out by Facebook’s own internal advertising mechanism, through which it collects money to distribute the posts. It is not clear why the social network does not perform a preliminary check of the sponsored content – which could prevent their publication.