近期「假新聞」的討論都與美國大選與英國脫歐事件有關，卻可能因此忽略假新聞事件源自當地情境，不同社會會因為不同理由而出現假新聞。本文以加薩走廊、阿拉伯之春為討論案例，藉以瞭解阿拉伯世界的假新聞現象，並兼論主流媒體如何判讀有關阿拉伯之春的新聞真假。本文認為，假新聞事件似可說明阿拉伯世界企圖創造資訊逆流，也凸顯新聞記者無法在場時，更容易有假新聞發生。

The current debate on fake news is heavily on American Election of President and the British referendum to leave the EU. However, these concerns about the weakness of fake news are not restricted to American and European contexts only. Each society might conceive different reasons for the manufacturing of fake news. This paper tries to examine fake news through Gaza Strip conflict and Arab Spring, happened in the Middle East. This paper argues the Arabic people try to create contra-flows of information on social media. The mainstream media put efforts to check information which are user generated contents. This paper also finds fake news always appear under special context where professional journalists are absent.

假新聞；政治；阿拉伯之春；加薩走廊；逆流

fake news; politics; Arab Spring; Gaza Strip; contra-flows