What discourse you see online is entirely dependent on who you follow. TikTok is not force feeding you pro-Palestine content (and pro-Palestine ≠ pro-Hamas, people who are unironically pro-Hamas are not to be taken seriously since they usually come with other nonsensical takes on everything). Neither is Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, or any other platform where content is recommended based on user preferences. Don't like what you see? Close it or use whatever feedback function built-in to strongly signal your distaste, and the algorithms will recommend less of that. My tech twitter timeline was unusable for weeks after October 7 because many people I follow started posting pro-Israel messages nonstop, to the point where I had to mute them because it's not what I followed them for despite having sympathy for Israelis after the attack from Hamas.

I started getting ads obviously funded by the State of Israel and pro-Israel organizations on Youtube, on Twitter, on Instagram, and on TikTok (for a day or two). There were "Missing Person" posters of October 7th victims in my neighbourhood street which is located more than 10000+km from Israel (I feel bad for them and hope they will return home safe and sound, but what are these posters trying to achieve here in my neighbourhood? My local representative legislator is already supporting Israel and condemning Hamas). I'm not going to stop recognizing propaganda for being propaganda even if I mostly agree with its underlying message. That's a basic critical thinking skill and evidently that skill is lacking even mong highly successful and "intelligent" people on HN, tech Twitter, and so on.

Just to be clear, are you saying this article is false propaganda? Which parts, and do you have sources? I'd like to know full picture before I send this link to people.

> suggesting that we are deceived and in fact there is more pro-Israeli discoursem when in reality it is being drowned out

Ironically, people are jumping at the opportunity to contradict you and actually adding some new data points that you're actually right.

> people are jumping at the opportunity to contradict you and actually adding some new data points that you're actually right.

This argument is called a double-bind.

There is no need for Russian/Iranian propaganda bots. Israel does that already for them: Seeing how Israel tries to defeat Hamas by withholding water, food, electricity, medicines for 2.2mil civilians in Gaza or by using genocidal language by Netanyahu and his war cabinet (Netanyahu: „they are Amalek!“, Gallant: „they are human animals“, Herzog: „there are no innocent in Gaza“, and then compring Hamas to Hitler/Nazis/ISIS/Satan) or by bombing hospitals, schools, ambulances, killing civilians by the thousands, then at the same time handing out guns to Settlers who loot, kill, start pogroms in the West Bank.

Exactly my thoughts on this. Hamas prepares propaganda videos that get shared widely on TikTok, openly calls for murdering Jews globally, and it gets amplified by 1.8 billion people whose holy book calls for attacks on Jews and on platforms that have repeatedly been used to spread misinformation (not just about this conflict). Nobody bats an eye; instead there's a conspiratorial take here as though the Jews secretly control the global social media narrative.

I could not confirm your claim that Hamas called for murdering Jews globally. Could you please share a source?

My feeling is that media controlled by people - like TikTok - tend to be pro-Palestinian, whereas media controlled by institutions tend to be pro-Israeli (with the exception of the majority of ONGs and human right organizations).

> it gets amplified by 1.8 billion people whose holy book calls for attacks on Jews

Got to say, broadly generalizing like this borders on racism, which definitely does not help defend a country accused of apartheid and genocide.

> media controlled by people - like TikTok

If you think TikTok (or Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc..) are 'controlled by people' I have a bridge to sell you.

Sorry, not going to explain state-sponsored internet propaganda to some rando who created a pro-Palestine account. That would be very stupid.

My working theory is that pro-palestine contents is creating more clicks/advertisement revenue thus the algorithms prefer it.

Article 7 of the Hamas charter.

Sounds like the equivalent of the Nation-State laws in Israel to me. For reference:

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas

> Article 7:

> The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Natio...

> 1 — Basic Principles

> A. The land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people, in which the State of Israel was established.

> 7 — Jewish Settlement

> A. The state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.

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This does not come from the Quran, which does not call for killing Jews anywhere, but feel free to show me where it does.

It comes from something called the "Gharqad Tree Hadith". A hadith is the muslim equivalent of a blog post dating more than a thousand years ago. It has no canonical value, it's an opinion piece by an individual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharqad

And no, again you're wrong: it isn't part of the current charter either. You can read the actual content here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter#Contents

I would recommend reading more about this because your knowledge of the subject seems extremely poor and ressembles low value talking points you usually hear on talk shows.

If anything, please share sources to back your genocidal claims.

Come now, a rewrite of their charter by some American social studies grad to make it more palpable to the public does not change their original intent.

We saw it in their actions on 10/7: they want the mass murder of civilians. Their leaders have called for global jihad time and again.

> I could not confirm your claim that Hamas called for murdering Jews globally. Could you please share a source?

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalize_the_Intifada

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-hamas-chief...

> "To all scholars who teach jihad... to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application (of theories)," Meshaal said.

https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_hamas-official-condemn...

> He continued: "Seven million Palestinians outside, enough warming up, you have Jews with you in every place. You should attack every Jew possible in all the world and kill them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEgBsU6Mi8

I can find more sources but I have work to do.

There are ~9 Senators and 26 House representatives who are Jewish. There is only 1 Palestinian, and as the article pointed out, many from the pro-Israel faction are vying to have her expelled from congress. Further, in the US, nearly every presidential candidate or prominent politician has staunchly taken the side of Israel, reiterating their 'right to defend' whenever the mass casualties of Gaza are brought up. Many in Biden's admin have given interviews saying this sentiment as well.

So while I'm sure your statistics are correct, I think it's a misnomer to say that there is more anti-Israel propoganda or pro-Israel or anti-Palestinian, etc. It's a moot point. The most clear point to me is that most gov't officials are supporting Israel's war no matter what.