Oakland City Council Meeting Sparks Controversy Over Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
In this story from Dec. 5, 2023, KQED's Rachel Myrow spoke with Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, about a particular social media post that has gained traction after the Oakland City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza.
Mainstream media organizations picked up the story and quoted representatives of some organizations, decrying the tweet as a misrepresentation of the Oakland meeting. Irina Raicu who directs the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University weighs in giving all sides in this story bad marks, primarily for dismissing the pain of those who don't hold their views as if being on the side of humanity is a form of both sidesism.
"Selective editing is a kind of misinformation." Raicu says the tweet and the retweet, are both objectionable"
It actively makes things worse. Every time somebody does that. And I've seen both communities only focus on their own internal pain and completely disregard or actively deny the other."
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Rachel Mydrow, KQED/NPR Radio.