Emirati, Israeli and far-right social media accounts coordinated a digital campaign falsely claiming that Christians were being killed by Islamists in Sudan, a new report has found.
Beam Reports, a Sudanese investigative platform that combats disinformation, said in its latest report on Wednesday that after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group seized control of el-Fasher in Darfur nearly a month ago, misleading content about the nature of events began to surface online in a "synchronised manner".
Beam identified Amjad Taha, an Emirati analyst, as the architect of the campaign. He posted several claims about alleged Islamists in Sudan, which were then amplified by other accounts.
Beam found that several accounts, like pro-Israel American influencer Nima Yamini and far-right Polish politician Dominik Tarczynski, who took to social media to re-use images of RSF abuses against civilians in el-Fasher and frame them as "Islamist violence against Christians".