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Alessandro Accorsi

Brussels, London
As seen in: Medium, VICE, Foreign Policy Magazine, AllAfrica, Middle East Eye, Mint Press News, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Roads and Kingdoms, Revista de Prensa "Almendrón"
Researcher Technology and Conflict | Previously @crisisgroup, Stratcom @eu_eeas, Middle Eastern and investigative journalist | @cityjournalism alumni

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How Israel Mastered Information Warfare in Gaza

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By Alessandro Accorsi
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
The images of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel—during which around 1,200 men, women and children were killed—instantly became the centerpiece of an intense information warfare campaign. For the first time since the Second Intifada, global public opinion was exposed to mass Israeli civilian casualties as images of atrocities committed by Hamas and other armed groups as well as Gazan civilians circulated widely on social media. The images of Hamas’s Oct.
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Why a Small Change at Twitter Could Have Big Consequences for Deadly Conflict

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By Alessandro Accorsi, Laura Courchesne
| Revista de Prensa "Almendrón" Verified
The fight to counter disinformation just got tougher. In April, Twitter limited access to its “application programming interface” or API, a computer protocol that enables application software to communicate efficiently and accurately. Since Twitter was founded in 2006, its free API policy has allowed millions of users to extract data from the platform.
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What Facebook Does (and Doesn’t) Have to Do with Ethiopia’s Ethnic Violence

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By Alessandro Accorsi, Jane Esberg, William Davison
| Revista de Prensa "Almendrón" Verified
In December 2022, the son of slain Ethiopian professor Meareg Amare Abrha was among those who filed a lawsuit against Meta, the owner of Facebook. The constitutional petition, which was filed in Kenya – home to a Meta moderating hub – alleged that the company had evinced a “woeful failure to address violence on the platform” and held it responsible for the November 2021 murder of Meareg, an ethnic Tigrayan living in Bahir Dar, the capital of Amhara region.
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