Social media companies claim they are working to counter misinformation and disinformation on their platforms as the ​​war between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced a series of actions it would take in response to the war, including the launch of a “special operations center” that will monitor content on the war and increased efforts to ensure content that violates company policy is never recommended to users before removal.

“We quickly established a special operations center staffed with experts, including fluent Hebrew and Arabic speakers, to closely monitor and respond to this rapidly evolving situation in real-time,” the announcement reads. “This allows us to remove content that violates our Community Standards or Community Guidelines faster and serves as another line of defense against misinformation.”

Meta said it removed 795,000 pieces of content in the three days following Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, which occurred on October 7.

Meta and Google, the latter of which owns YouTube, already have bans on content produced by Hamas, which the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization. TikTok, the parent company of which has alleged links to the Chinese Communist Party, told Axios it bans Hamas’ content. However, The Washington Post reported the company has refused to disclose what organizations it deems as terrorist organizations.

The European Commission announced last week it had launched an investigation into X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, over how the company allegedly allowed misinformation and disinformation about the war between Hamas and Israel to spread.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told the commission the company is countering such posts by “redistributing resources” and “[refocusing] internal teams.”

Social media platforms were forced to consider serious questions about content moderation on Tuesday after an explosion outside a hospital in Gaza resulted in conflicting reports, with estimates of the number of dead ranging from the dozens to the low hundreds. Videos surfacing on the platforms showed the explosion. Hamas and Israel each blamed the other for the incident.

The Department of Defense concluded on Wednesday that the explosion resulted from a botched rocket attack by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza. The notion was echoed by President Joe Biden, who met Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Based on the information we’ve seen to date, [the hospital explosion] appears the result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza. The United States unequivocally stands for the protection of civilian life during conflict, and I grieve — I truly grieve for the families who were killed or wounded by this tragedy,” Biden said.

Footage of the explosion released by the Israel Defense Forces appears to show it mainly affecting the parking lot, as opposed to destroying the hospital, as initially reported by a number of news outlets.

A headline in The New York Times shared on social media initially stated an “Israeli strike” killed hundreds of Palestinians in a hospital, citing Palestinian authorities, according to screenshots shared by Simon Ateba, White House correspondent for Today News Africa. “Israeli” was then edited out of the headline, and a later edit changed “strike” to “blast.”

The Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah called for a “Day of Rage” in response to Hamas officials’ unproven claims that the explosion resulted from an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. Mass protests ensued in the Middle East.