December 21, 2023
Distortion by design: How social media platforms shaped our initial understanding of the Israel-Hamas conflict
Platform design and content moderation decisions affect what people see, hear, and believe about the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the conflict in Gaza that has followed. Do X, Meta, Telegram, and TikTok recognize how their algorithms affect people, politics, and history? Do we? The first declaration of war came via Telegram. On