ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 17 Dec 2023 8:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

83% of Internet posts about the war are against Israel

An analysis conducted by an artificial intelligence company revealed that the absolute majority of posts on social media sites and articles in major international media are against “Israel” in its war on the Gaza Strip, despite the restrictions practiced by technology companies against Palestinian content.


According to the analysis published by Israeli Channel 12, 83% of online posts related to the war are against “Israel,” and only 9% are in favor of it.


According to MIG AI data, since October 7, the date of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, 1.9 million posts have been written about the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. More than a million and a half of those posts were against Israel, with an absolute majority of 83%. Only 9% of the posts were in favor of Israel, while 8% were neutral.


The analysis also indicated that most conversations (64%) took place on the social network X (formerly Twitter), while Instagram ranked second with 17%.


As for media coverage, the analysis revealed that “on major news sites, for every positive report toward Israel, there are three reports that present Israel in a negative light,” out of approximately 372,000 articles published about the war on websites that receive more than a million visits. Monthly, 64% were neutral, 28% were against Israel, and 8% were in favor of Israel.


Social media sites, especially those affiliated with Meta, are launching an organized campaign against Palestinian content that informs the world of the crimes of the occupation.


In mid-October, the American website The Intercept published a report in which it talked about the repressive practices pursued by TikTok and Instagram during periods of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.


He added that these platforms' targeting of accounts that provide coverage of Palestinian events comes at a time when it is difficult to obtain information from people in Gaza, amid the comprehensive Israeli siege on its population of two million people, and during which Israel prevents foreign media from entering the Strip.


On Saturday, the NetBlox Observatory said that it was the fifth time that the Israeli occupation had cut off communications since the start of the war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The observatory concerned with monitoring access to the Internet around the world added, in a tweet via the “X” platform, that the new outage is the longest since the start of the war last October.


He added that an Internet outage would greatly limit knowledge of what is happening in Gaza, which has been subjected to round-the-clock bombardment for 72 days, which has so far led to the death of nearly 19,000 Palestinians and the injury of 51,000.


Israel is trying to obscure the story, after the global mood turned against it. Israeli Channel 12 reported that the majority of social media posts and major international media articles are against Israel.

With the fierce fighting taking place in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army is suffering heavy losses, and it was announced that the number of its dead as of last Thursday had reached 445 soldiers, including 119 officers, i.e. approximately 27% of the number of soldiers killed.


Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Friday, has left 18,800 dead and 51,000 injured, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to Palestinian and UN sources.

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83% of Internet posts about the war are against Israel