What Next TBD: Inside Hamas' Social Media Strategy

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Since war broke out, Hamas has been efficient in getting its message out on social media - both in providing crucial information to refugees fleeing the area, and in waging psychological warfare. How can platforms meet the need for open lines of communication without spreading propaganda? Guest: Sheera Frenkel, covering tech for the New York Times If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.2	taking and war.
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0:49.8	On October 7th, friends and relatives of Gali Idan started getting messages to check her Facebook page.
0:51.5	Idan is an Israeli who lives in a kibbutz near the border with Gaza.
0:56.0	The first messages were frantic.
0:59.0	I think one just said Facebook, and then it clarified, look at Ghali's Facebook.
1:05.0	Open Facebook now.
1:08.0	That's reporter Shira Frankel, who covers tech for the New York Times.
1:12.6	Check Ghaly's page was another one.
1:14.6	A lot of them had misspellings, and it was clear something was going on, but the messages were pretty
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