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Censorship of vids of damages, only bootlegs getting out? They seem to be showing the same vids over and over.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iranian hypersonic missile strikes Tel Aviv, Israel.

I do wonder what the typical Iranian sees as news.

Rybar:

https://t.me/rybar_in_english/23009

For the first time in my adult life, pictures of widespread property damage began trickling out of Israel from odd corners of social media. Officially, Israel reports only three dead. I pray that is true. But the unofficial pictures of collapsed apartment buildings across the small country make the low casualty count difficult to comprehend.

The lack of transparency is a feature, not a bug. Israeli law allows the government total control of war news— every Israeli media outlet must sign an agreement with the military censor as a condition of operating.

When two veteran propaganda machines like Israel’s and Iran’s are engaged in open warfare, there is no such thing as journalism— we’re left to decode battlefield theater. Iran also censors, less formally and more brutally, through arrests, surveillance, and media shutdowns. Its propaganda machine is more centralized, but less internationally credible. Israel’s media, by contrast, benefits from the appearance of a free press while still subject to near-total narrative control, especially during war.

The lack of transparency is a feature, not a bug. Israeli law allows the government total control of war news— every Israeli media outlet must sign an agreement with the military censor as a condition of operating.

When two veteran propaganda machines like Israel’s and Iran’s are engaged in open warfare, there is no such thing as journalism— we’re left to decode battlefield theater. Iran also censors, less formally and more brutally, through arrests, surveillance, and media shutdowns. Its propaganda machine is more centralized, but less internationally credible. Israel’s media, by contrast, benefits from the appearance of a free press while still subject to near-total narrative control, especially during war.