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Hamas: Should we cut ourselves off from social networks? Surveys October 13, 2023 Reading time: 9 min Share In the age of social media, war breaks out on our screens, between a mixture of incomprehensible horror and superficial posts. Since October 7, the date of the Hamas attack on Israel, photos of atrocities have been spreading on the web, without any moderation. By Alexandra Klinnik, France Télévisions Information MediaLab Platforms are flooded with ultra-violent videos of civilian murders and calls for hatred.


Corpses of elderly people in front of bus stations, blood-stained bangladesh telegram cribs, burned bodies of children: horror is just a click away. Beyond the extreme violence, the flow of this content is challenging, particularly on X (formerly Twitter). "We have never seen a terrorist attack with so many images available ," says Philippe Corbé, the editorial director of BFM-TV . "Thousands of small filmed moments are coming at us from all directions .


" In the middle of this dark night, fake news, which has become a propaganda weapon, is the norm. How can we keep the necessary perspective and protect ourselves from violence in the era of the information apocalypse? Unprecedented level of violence and disinformation " In 2015, a photo of the victims' bodies taken inside the Bataclan was shared on social media. At the time, the platforms reacted quickly by removing the photo ," recalls Jacques Pezet, a journalist with the CheckNews service of Libération.