{"id":34253,"date":"2024-07-10T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2024\/07\/10\/navy-should-hit-back-harder-against-houthi-online-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:06:26","slug":"navy-should-hit-back-harder-against-houthi-online-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/opinion\/2024\/07\/10\/navy-should-hit-back-harder-against-houthi-online-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy should hit back harder against Houthi online disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month, Capt. Christopher \u201cChowdah\u201d Hill<\/a>, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, invited journalists to inspect<\/a> the flight deck of his carrier while it was underway in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalists reported seeing nothing wrong on the flight deck, which was precisely the point of Hill\u2019s invitation. Ike and its crew remained on station, with no hole in the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two weeks earlier, a spokesman for Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebel movement announced<\/a> that the rebels had struck the Eisenhower with a barrage of missiles to punish the United States for its support of Israel in its war against Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On X (formerly Twitter), Houthi supporters shared a video<\/a> allegedly showing a large crater<\/a> at the forward end of the Eisenhower\u2019s flight deck. Other accounts posted a different image of a fiery blast<\/a> aboard the ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purported evidence of a strike spread quickly<\/a> across Chinese and Russian social media platforms, thanks in part to the efforts of Russian sites with a reputation in the West for spreading disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\t