SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Abulhawa warned that this could mark “a new phase in efforts to wipe evidence of Israeli war crimes from the internet.”

Meta Erases Gaza Journalist’s Instagram — Archived Versions Also Missing Instagram has removed the verified account of Gaza journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi (4.5 million followers). Writer
@SusanAbulhawa
noted that archived snapshots of his page on the Wayback Machine, the internet’s largest public archive, also appear to have been wiped or disabled. While it’s unclear how or why those archives vanished, Abulhawa says the coincidence raises concern about a broader digital erasure of Palestinian documentation. Al-Jafarawi, widely followed for his on-the-ground coverage of the Gaza genocide, had faced repeated censorship before his account’s removal. He was killed yesterday by an armed group reportedly collaborating with Israel. Abulhawa warned that this could mark “a new phase in efforts to wipe evidence of Israeli war crimes from the internet.”

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some time ago, a friend of mine told me she thought Israel, through the multitude of their technology tentacles, were going to try to scrub the internet as much as possible of evidence of their crimes. at the time I thought that might be an exaggeration of their capacity, but

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