Palestinians Risked Their Lives to Document Gaza, Then Came The Algorithm

Shot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcat

Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (Published 2024)

The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive

Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation

War in the Smartphone Age | Hurst Publishers

An essential guide to understanding war and information on today’s data-saturated battlefields—from Ukraine to Gaza and beyond.

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Digital Strategists: Network of Manipulation Projects and Buying Influencers for Israel | Arabic Post

Arabic Post Exposes the Network of "Buying Influencers" in America Since the Start of the Gaza War

Why the Algorithm Loves a Villain, And How to Beat It

When the internet is full of distortions, fake news, and AI-generated slop, how can facts and journalism rise to the top? Former BBC and Vice journalist Sophia Smith Galer has one possible way to…

What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.

Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation

Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.

‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.

Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

Israeli soldiers tell +972 they deliberately target Palestinian civilians with drone strikes so others will ‘learn’ not to return.

Protecting civilians in a data-driven and digitalized battlespace: toward a baseline humanitarian technology infrastructure

This article examines the realities of modern day warfare, including a rising trend in hybrid threats and irregular warfare which employ emerging technologies supported by digital and data-driven processes. The way in which these technologies become applied generates a widened battlefield and leads to a greater number of civilians being caught up in conflict. Humanitarian groups mandated to protect civilians have adapted their approaches to the use of new emerging technologies. However, the lack of international consensus on the use of data, the public and private nature of the actors involved in conflict, the transnational aspects of the widened battlefield, and the heightened security risks in the conflict space pose enormous challenges for the protection of civilians agenda. Based on the dual-usage aspect of emerging technologies, the challenges associated with regulation and the need for those affected by conflict to demonstrate resilience toward, and knowledge of, digital media literacy, this paper proposes the development of guidance for a "minimum basic technology infrastructure" which is supported by technology, regulation, and public awareness and education