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.

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A statement from The New York Times.
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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.

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.
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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.

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?

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.

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

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:

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.

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.

Today on the show: how Hamas militants gained control of hostages' social media accounts, and livestreamed their ordeals: slate.com/podcasts/what-…

There are few reporters who understand the intersection of this war and social media like Sheera Frenkel, which is why I wanted to talk to her. slate.com/podcasts/what-…

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 illustrating how the AI industry profits from precarious labor conditions. technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/108…

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.

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.

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