DENVER (KDVR) — Mother and father throughout the USA are being urged to delete social media apps, like TikTok and X, off their kids’s telephones because the warfare between Israel and Hamas ramps up.
Extra wartime content material is showing on social media, and now the terrorist group Hamas is warning individuals it can broadcast the torturing and killing of hostages if Israeli troops goal civilian areas of Gaza.
The director of the Middle of Center East Research on the College of Denver joined “Colorado Level of View” this week and mentioned how Hamas’ tactic is much like ISIS: to “create scare and concern amongst American populations.”
“One of many targets of Hamas when it took 100-plus hostages to the Gaza strip … was to make an change with Palestinian prisoners,” Micheline Ishay mentioned.
Ishay mentioned there needs to be some type of regulation with social media content material, particularly throughout a warfare. The European Union has the same mindset, telling social media firms to do extra to maintain misinformation in regards to the warfare off the platforms.
Nonetheless, the DU professor mentioned social media might be useful.
“Typically the information doesn’t arrive on time, and social media present filler for the ignorance,” she mentioned.
She added that it may be useful for households looking for family members, however they may doubtless see grotesque pictures alongside the best way.
Watch the complete dialog on “Colorado Level of View” this Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on Channel 2.
