yeah a few people are interpreting this tweet to be a defense of disinformation or pretending like it doesn't matter—it does. but acting as though palestinians and their allies are facing the challenges of regular journalism to produce verified, ethical reporting when they are literally being murdered and prevented from doing their jobs, when israel is preventing international bodies from coming in, is quite frankly a joke.
in terms of methodology, verification and bias, western journalism has failed while having every opportunity that palestinian journalists are deprived of. this is a deliberate failure that comes from institutional racism and a lack of integrity, as well as the collapse of freedom of the press that has occurred in major institutions.
at the same time, they are casting doubt on the integrity of palestinian journalists and authorities without acknowledging that they are facing unprecedented levels of danger and personal risk.
to equate both of these to "disinformation" and pretend like individual tiktokers and twitter accounts are as responsible as major institutions that are uncritically repeating idf propaganda is a major lapse. a lot of smug "fact checkers" who will later raise doubts on the veracity of israeli claims in the name of even-handedness are simply not grappling with this reality at all. both the idf and western journalism have a severe problem with credibility that ur average bluecheck twitter account never had in the first place.
palestinians have historically been far more reliable in their claims even while they are under bombardment simply because they know getting the truth out at any cost is imperative. this is seen in their respect of the press, the status that reporters like shireen abu akleh and wael eldahdouh and correspondents like motaz and bisan have among their communities, their refusal to shy away from cameras even in the worst moments and worst tragedy of their lives. disinformation on both sides might be appropriate if both sides were reliant on whatsapp group messages and auntie networks to disseminate information, but this is quite evidently not the case. one side has the entire apparatus of western media behind it, and the other side has 37 dead journalists and no power.
