In a recent New York Times piece exploring how people are forming views on the Israel-Gaza war in today’s hyper-polarized environment, JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick underscored the dangerous role that social media plays in fueling division.

As the article notes, online influence campaigns, artificial intelligence-generated images, and bot-driven accounts have helped amplify one-sided narratives and conspiracy theories. This dynamic has made it increasingly difficult to engage in nuanced, fact-based conversation about such complex issues.

“There’s a direct link between the rise of polarization on issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the ways in which this has been repeatedly reinforced by zero-sum thinking and conspiracy theories on social media,” said Amy Spitalnick, Chief Executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

Click here to read the full story in The New York Times.

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