Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: “Fake news” reflects tension, paranoia in Lebanon
Description: Lebanon (MNN) — Local media in Lebanon – quoting anonymous sources – say a full-scale invasion by Israel will begin tomorrow, June 15. MNN turned to Nuna* with Triumphant Mercy Lebanon for details.
“There is an escalation. Yes. There are more battles on the ground. Yes. But having a date like that, I don’t think this is true news,” Nuna says.
Like the little boy in the fairy tale who cried wolf one too many times, Nuna says invasion warnings are a common yet toothless tune. “I don’t believe any specific dates [given] for invasion,” Nuna says.
“We have hea...