An international team of academics analysed 1,371 reports on Gaza war casualties from February to May 2024 in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, BBC, Reuters, The Associated Press and Australia’s ABC. It turned out that 85 per cent of these publications did not distinguish between fighters and civilians, and 98 per cent of the publications used Palestinian deaths provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. These are just a small part of the findings of a published report by a US research centre, the Henry Jackson Society. It shows in detail how the Gaza Ministry of Health falsifies statistics and how the distorted data is then used in the media.
The initiator of the study, which showed how journalists of the world’s publications used fake data without verification, was Tatiana Glaser, a sociologist, graduate of the Moscow Theodore Shanin Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, founder of the community of new repatriates in Israel “Pumpkin Latte”. Find out what made her gather dozens of volunteer scientists from different countries for her research, why journalists from the world’s leading media outlets did not want to report on its findings, and how Israel’s media policy affects accurate information about the war in Gaza in episode 15 of the Invasion: Science in a Time of War podcast .
Author: Olga Orlova
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Olga Orlova 24.12.2024