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A former judicial fellow at the ICJ explains what you need to know about the case and what to expect going forward.

Almost as soon as the Israel-Hamas war began, it collided with the engineering and policy decisions of social media companies. On Telegram, terrorist content spread mostly uncontested; on X, false claims proliferated. Accusations of anti-Palestinian bias at Meta and pro-Palestinian bias at TikTok added to the confusion. Can the platforms thread this needle?

The Israeli president also confirmed that Israel would be willing to pause fighting in Gaza again in exchange for hostages.