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Mostly false: “More journalists killed in Gaza war than in both world wars combined”

Fact-check, Mostly falseBy Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, DE June 8, 2026

An article by “Al Jazeera” from March 2026 claims that “more journalists have been killed in Gaza since the Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, than in the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the coalition invasion of Afghanistan –…

Numbers are not facts – What we learned from our fact check

BlogpostBy Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, DE June 7, 2026

When we started our fact-check, we thought it would be a fairly simple task. The claim was about the number of journalists killed in different wars. Find the numbers, compare them, and determine whether the claim was true or false. However, the deeper we went into the research, the more we realised that it was…