The conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories has proven to be particularly fraught on social media. Finding out what has been happening on the ground has been complicated by a number of issues: the divisiveness of the debate on both sides, and how entrenched each viewpoint is; the ease with which alternative narratives are broadcast; and the immediate emotional responses that content can trigger.
In this, the last episode of the Techtonic series, host Chris Stokel-Walker speaks to Valerie Wirtschafter, a Fellow in Foreign Policy and the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Brookings Institution, about the solutions to these issues and how we can verify truth in the fog of war.
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