Beyond the Instagram War
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Images from Israel and Gaza on social media spur drastically different understandings of the conflict.
As the platforms’ algorithms reinforce our views and mute opposing ideas, we risk losing sight of reality. Our feeds foster an environment in which the NYU Law Student Bar Association’s president posted that “the full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life” rests on the Israeli government. Thirty Harvard student groups “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” All while the leaders of many top universities fail to make public statements.
A moment of 9/11-like moral clarity has been transformed into a series of political statements scrolling on phone screens.
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