The Information War in Gaza w/ Marwa Fatafta

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Marwa Fatafta to discuss the ongoing Israeli campaign in Gaza, the importance of social media for sharing what’s happening on the ground, and what listeners can do to support peace and Palestinian rights. Marwa Fatafta is a Palestinian digital rights advocate and researcher. She is Access Now’s Policy and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the go...

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0:00.0	It's not only Israeli authorities that are peddling disinformation.
0:03.3	The president of the U.S., Joe Biden, has also went on spreading disinformation when he, for instance,
0:11.1	repeat, said that he saw 40 beheaded babies, which the White House then clarified that they
0:17.4	have not seen any confirmed reports of beheaded babies.
0:20.5	But the CNN reported that, and then they said, oops, sorry. clarified that they have not seen any confirmed reports of beheaded babies.
0:27.0	But the CNN reported that, and then they said, oops, sorry, we could not verify that information.
0:28.3	We were misled.
0:30.1	But the damage was already done.
0:32.2	The dehumanization was already done. The justification of Israel's bombardment and carbon bombing campaign in Gaza's is done.
1:00.0	Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Marwa Fatta.
1:09.8	Marwa is a Palestinian digital rights advocate and researcher. She is a policy and advocacy director at Access Now, where she leads their work on the Middle East and North Africa region.
1:17.1	Now, as I'm sure you're aware, on October 7th, Hamas fighters breached the events that Israel built around Gaza and got into Israeli communities and killed, I believe, it's 1,200 civilians is the number that we have now.
1:23.6	And as a result of that, Israel launched kind of an unprecedented bombing campaign and bombardment
1:30.8	on Gaza. We've also seen bombings happen in Lebanon and Syria, and of course, an increase in
1:37.0	settler violence in the West Bank, and of course Palestinian families being forced out of their
1:42.7	communities by those settlers. You know, the death toll in
1:46.0	Gaza now is over 11,000 people, a very high percentage of those being children and women who are
1:53.8	dying because of this. And I felt it essential that we had to do an episode discussing what is going on in Gaza and in Palestine right now,
2:03.9	because it's not just in violation of the Geneva Conventions,
2:08.0	it's not just a series of war crimes, it's not just a genocide that's happening,
2:12.9	but it's in violation of the most kind of basic moral decency.
2:17.1	I don't think it's possible to sit back
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