“Read With Extreme Caution”: A Journalist’s Guide to Israel-Palestine Media Literacy
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Dina Ibrahim Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others…
Israel-Palestine Disinformation Is Everywhere. Here’s How You Beat It.
Mother Jones; Getty; photo courtesy of Megan Squire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others…
To Make a Documentary About Abortion, They Had to Fight the Right’s War on Information
Mother Jones; Photos courtesy of Tracy Droz Tragos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2019, when Tracy Droz Tragos started filming Plan C, her new documentary about a network of activists and medical providers helping Americans access abortion pills—which are approved by the FDA…
A Top Science Journal Fired Its Editor Over a Pro-Palestinian Tweet. He Has No Regrets.
Michael EisenAndy Reynolds Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The tweet that got Michael Eisen fired as editor-in-chief of a prestigious science journal seems less provocative with each passing day. On October 13, less than a week after Hamas’ cold-blooded rampage near the Gaza-Israel border, satirical…
US and Israeli Polticians Amplify Bogus Claims of Media Complicity in Hamas Attack
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on July 12, 2023.Rod Lamkey/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Among the thousands of people who should have spent more time thinking before posting about Israel and Hamas, Sen. Tom Cotton may have just taken the prize. The Arkansas Republican…
An Israeli Journalist on the Hamas Attack and the “Unfathomable and Criminal” Crisis in Gaza
People extinguish a fire in the site of Israeli air strikes as fighting between Israeli troops and Islamist Hamas militants continues. Abed Rahim Khatib/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2003, Haggai Matar made headlines as a teenager for refusing to perform mandatory service…