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PURELY COMMENTARY

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Stop Helping Hamas Win 
Its Disinformation War
Fake news and lies are flooding your feed. 
Do these four things before sharing that powerful war post.
T

he fog of war, a term often 
attributed to Prussian military 
theorist Carl von Clausewitz, 
describes the chaos that clouds a bat-
tlefield commander’s vision. But in the 
digital age, this fog obscures everyone’s 
vision. Just ask Joe Kahn, 
the executive editor of the 
New York Times.
For the first time since 
assuming the helm in June 
2022, Kahn recently issued 
an editor’s note (read: apol-
ogy) for a headline stating 
that an Israeli airstrike was 
responsible for 500 deaths 
at Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital, with an 
attribution to the “Palestinian Health 
Authority.” “Times editors should have 
taken more care with the initial presenta-

tion,” he wrote.
In the week between the Times’ head-
line and Kahn’s statement, it has become 
clear that practically everything about 
the initial story was off. The blast hit the 
parking lot, not the hospital. There were 
far fewer deaths than initially reported. 
And video analyses point to the damage 
coming from a misfired rocket, aimed at 

Israel, launched from Gaza itself.
Along with my colleagues at Stanford 
University, I have spent the last seven 
years studying how people learn to make 
better decisions about what to believe 
online. We can partially ascribe the 
Times’ confusion to conflicting reports in 
the immediate aftermath of this event.
However, not only should the Times 
have known better than to swallow whole 
the claims of the Palestinian Health 
Ministry and its Hamas overlords — it 
did know. Before the banner headline 
went up, a senior editor on the inter-
national desk warned colleagues on the 
Times internal Slack channel, leaked to 
Vanity Fair, that “we can’t just hang the 
attribution of something so big on one 
source without having tried to verify it.”
The senior editor’s warning fell on deaf 

Sam 
Wineburg
The Time 
of Israel

