Piecing Together the Evidence: Open-Source Intelligence in Israel’s Gaza War
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Elliot Higgins 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 “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…
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…
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…
A Far-Right Livestreamer Is Calling for Immigrant Aid Workers to be Shot
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost as soon as news of actor Matthew Perry’s death broke last week, anti-vaccine activists began speculating that a Covid shot had caused his untimely passing (the cause of death is still undetermined). This was just the latest example…
“X” Axed Headlines. That Sucks For Accessibility.
ANP/Zuma; Maxppp/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yet again, X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter, has gone through an abrupt design change. As of Wednesday, users can no longer see headlines to links shared on the platform. While it’s a blow to…
White Nationalists Are Big Fans of Elon’s “White Genocide” Tweets
Joel Saget/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk made his most brazen overture to white nationalists yet on Monday, tweeting about the “white genocide” conspiracy theory in South Africa. In response to a video of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party posted by…