Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from US Lawmakers on Gaza

Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:06PM (#40588273)

Its not at all, even if you mean “social media age”, and not “information age”, it's just one of the first (there are other disputed candidates, e.g., in Ukraine) that are getting first world attention other than after-the-fact.

The Rohingya genocide in Myanmar in which Facebook’s role was widely discussed (largely, in the first world, after the fact) was probably the first social media age genocide, if you don't restrict it to ones with immediate first-world attention at a significant level.

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Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from... by runarberg on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:24PM (#40588475)

I’m thinking in terms of processes and propaganda. While other genocides use information technology for communication and propaganda, this one is unique in that information technology is used throughout, including in target selection and killings. The Rohingya Genocide does not e.g. use drones to carry out killings with targets selected by AI.

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Re:Israel Faked Social Media Accounts to Garner Support from... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:53PM (#40588837)

> While other genocides use information technology for communication and propaganda, this one is unique in that information technology is used throughout, including in target selection and killings.

No, its not. Heck, the Holocaust used information technology for target selection.

> The Rohingya Genocide does not e.g. use drones

The genocides in the former Yugoslavia used most of the weapons of then-modern warfare, which may not have included drones but certainly involved plenty of weapons systems that incorporate "information technology" in doing the killings.

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