Thread by @RYP__

Social media must have doubled in size over the last week. Mostly with those nicely designed factoids and Joe Q Public posts repeating hashtags and identical talking points. No mention about Israel creating Hamas tho. theintercept.com/2018/02/19/ham…

Israel does a good job of flooding all avenues of media to block out competitive or non-structured content. That has nothing to do with the actual conflict its just an expertise on working the media to define the narrative early. A good study in PR. huffpost.com/entry/how-isra…

Regardless of the content the narrative continues.

https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1392419164648873987

Twitter is confused about labeling content from state run, manipulated and/or controlled sources. They seem pretty keen to label Russian or Chinese media tho.

How easy is it to manipulate the media or rather push back against the media manipulating the story. I guess we should ask Jeff Bezos, MBS, David Pecker and Gavin de Becker and one of best NY Post headline: “Bezos Exposes Pecker” bloomberg.com/news/features/…

How is Bezos linked to the war in Israel? Both seek to establish a media narrative that is sympathetic to the manipulator and casts the opposition as evil. Making sure the opposition is blamed for manipulating the media, Which is true. But so does Israel. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hamas-s-manipu…

The reality is complex. While the western media declare "all out war" is possible, Israel is also at war with itself. Unable to form a government, Binny once again is yelling "red lines" and "iron fist" but no one will "win" this conflict. middleeasteye.net/live/israel-pa…

Maybe the most interesting example of how important media and perception are in this latest flare up is the airstrike on the al Aqsa TV station. A war on media. timesofisrael.com/hamas-tv-stati…

Is there a media source to get some understanding of the situation? You can argue that demonstrations are media manipulation designed to provoke conflict and decent footage.

https://twitter.com/JbareenYanal/status/1392144694365282307

Gilan Lotad did this impressive series of infographics on how biased the coverage is on Israel and Palestine. It is almost a perfect mirror image. medium.com/i-data/israel-…

Is there any source that is "unbiased" on the conflict? Hard to say. Perhaps "no" is the safest answer. Gaza? no. Israeli coverage. Possibly: blogs.dickinson.edu/gelulaj/2019/0…
US coverage,nope: theintercept.com/2019/01/12/isr…
General linguistics
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa…

Another excellent study on how the media views Palestine through the lens of violence. inquiremore.com/p/only-coverin…