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…
Trump Can Appear on Ballot Despite Engaging in Insurrection, Colorado Judge Rules
Rich Graessle/Icon SMI/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the days after the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, some legal experts began to speculate that a little-known constitutional provision might be used to block President Donald Trump from ever serving a second term.…
Petitions, Group Chats, and Resignations: Inside the Artist’s Fight to Stop the War on Gaza
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the spring of 1966, as college students protesting the Vietnam War organized teach-ins to educate their peers on the war, the poet Robert Bly knew they needed backup. “If you went to an audience [at that…
Senior US Official Appears to Endorse Collective Punishment of Gazans
Brett McGurk in 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a summit in Bahrain on Saturday, a US official stated that far more humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza if Hamas released the hostages it is holding. In doing so,…
ADL Celebrates Elon Musk’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Speech
Avalon.Red/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, Elon Musk endorsed a post on his social media platform that accused Jews of pushing “dialectical hatred against whites” and failing to realize that the “hordes of minorities” who were “flooding their country” didn’t actually like…
Israel’s Fuel Blockade is Strangling Gaza
Bashar Taleb/APA Images/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said on Saturday that Israel is only allowing “half of the daily minimum” amount of fuel…