Last week I interviewed Keren Schem, whose daughter, Mia, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival. Today, Hamas released a video showing Mia in Gaza. It’s the first time Keren has been able to confirm her daughter is alive since Oct 7. nytimes.com/2023/10/16/wor…

We spoke to over a dozen people whose friends and family were kidnapped on Oct. 7. What we discovered is that Hamas is using a deliberate tactic to terrify the families- hijacking’s their social media to send videos and photos. Story with Talya Minsberg nytimes.com/2023/10/17/tec…

This is why verification matters. This person/account is not an Al Jazeera journalist.

This misleading tweet has gained more than 1M views. The Facebook page claiming to be an official IDF page is FAKE. It has been removed from Facebook.

A lot of journalists are working overtime to try and determine what caused the explosion at Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Soon, we will have more clarity. I'm worried that it won't matter, and that each side has already chosen their narrative.

Meta hired actors during the Hollywood strike to train AI with their expressions & movements, paying as little as $300 to use the data “in perpetuity.” Nuanced story from Eileen Guo is on Bluesky illustrating how the AI industry profits from precarious labor conditions. technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/108…

Wow, this new report claims that Israel’s intel agency (the Shin Bet) met at 4am on Oct 7, and deployed a team to the Gaza border ahead of what they believed would be a cross-border attack. The Israeli army did nothing.

Well-known grifter Shaun King claimed to have helped release two hostages from Hamas. Some Israeli conspiracy theorists believed King's dubious claim and decided that it means the two women were Hamas collaborators and traitors. The family says they've never heard of King.

Roshdi Sarraj, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Radio France, was killed today in an Israeli bombing of the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, the network said: radiofrance.fr/franceinter/gu…. One of his last tweets, from five days ago, below:

A lot has been discussed/tweeted about the NYT headlines re the hospital explosion in Gaza. Listen to NYT editor Joe Kahn explains to @lourdesgnavarro why the NYT made the calls it did: nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pod…

Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket. The New York Times Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.

This image has gone viral in pro-Isreal circles, claiming to show a fake Palestinian corpse caught texting on his phone. Let's go through the image verification process step-by-step, using Google's reverse image search. Where does the photo come from and what's the context?

It sounds like Musk is saying that international groups, like the UN or Red Cross, can use Starlink get online from Gaza. Unclear if those groups have terminals, or if Israel will try and stop them.

How Years of Israeli Failures on Hamas Led to a Devastating Attack. Israeli officials completely underestimated the magnitude of Hamas attacks shattering the country’s once invincible sense of security. Ronen Bergman Mark Mazzetti Maria Abi-Habib nytimes.com/2023/10/29/wor…

Fellowship applications are open for the The New York Times Visual Investigations team -- come work with me for a year! This one-year fellowship meant for early-career journalists. Pay is $79k. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/fellowsh…

In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas. The deluge of online propaganda and disinformation is larger than anything seen before. Steven Lee Myers Sheera Frenkel nytimes.com/2023/11/03/tec…

I’ll add, since a few people emailed this to me, look at the date in the original NYT article. They were quoting police who ON THAT DATE said they had not determined if the case was a homicide.

A statement from The New York Times. nytco.com/press/statemen…

My heart is broken over the death of Vivian Silver, Someone who always managed to bridge the empathy gap between Israel and Gaza and see all humans as deserving of life. May her memory be for a blessing. cbc.ca/news/canada/is…

Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges Across the Internet. Fueled by the conflict between Israel and Gaza and stoked by extremists, hate speech has spiked on social media platforms. Steven Lee Myers Sheera Frenkel nytimes.com/2023/11/15/tec…