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Fabricated Tweet Attributed to Israeli Journalist Efrat Lachter on Iraqi Elections

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3rd January 2022
Fabricated Tweet Attributed to Israeli Journalist Efrat Lachter on Iraqi Elections
The journalists official Twitter account did not bless election results (Getty)

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Facebook and Twitter accounts have recently shared an alleged tweet attributed to Israeli journalist and Channel 12 correspondent Efrat Lachter. The tweet reads: “we congratulate the Iraqi people on the Federal Supreme Court’s approval of the election results, which everyone agrees that it was transparent. We also commend the national role played by leader Muqtada al-Sadr.”

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