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Oct 2024
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Tech's Role in Genocide: with Paul Bigga...

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
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This episode discusses how Israel utilizes technology in their genocide in Gaza, we talk about the AI Lavender, social media censoring of Palestinian voices, media's extensive biases towards the Israel narrative, and IDF soldiers/ Israel government officials who hold positions in media organizations.

My guest is Paul Biggar from Tech4Palestine, who was fired from the board of a company he started after publishing this blog post.

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