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US to discredit any legal framing that
To fully grasp this moment, we must turn
names apartheid, occupation, or systemic
to a third actor which is the social media.
violence. Her voice threatens the
Since the beginning of the current Gaza war
foundations of impunity. Secondly, they
on October 7, 2023, Palestinian journalists,
Allow visual truth but without context,
content creators doctors, and civilians have
the CNN can show dead children, but
documented the genocide everywhere on
only if it avoids naming the policy
digital platforms.
decisions or military doctrines that
This unfiltered documentation has broken
allowed their deaths. Lastly, there’s a
the narrative monopoly that CNN and
tendency to preserve the Moral
other mainstream media outlets once held.
Hierarchy. CNN keeps the focus on
No longer do viewers on the other side of
Israeli suffering, showing it with lots of
the hemisphere need to wait for Western
emotion and giving it importance and
news channels to decide what is real.
institutional legitimacy, while Palestinian
Millions now witness atrocities as they
suffering is either softened or
happen, through livestreams, phone
disconnected from its political origins.
cameras, and direct testimonies. TikTok,
These three moves are designed to curate
Instagram, Telegram, and X have become
the interpretation of truth after multiple
archives of real-time war crimes.
failures to hide it.
What we’re witnessing is not just a
political contradiction, but a breakdown
in the systems that once controlled how

the Israel-Palestine conflict was framed
and understood. At the core of this
unraveling are three major ruptures. The
legal rupture is embodied by Francesca

Albanese, whose role within the UN gives
her critiques institutional weight. When
she calls Israeli actions apartheid and
says they're punishing everyone, she's
As a result, CNN’s partial shift is not a sign
taking away the protection that Western
of moral awakening or a change in
countries have given Israel for years.
ideology. It is a survival move. Its authority
Sanctioning her isn't about anything she
has eroded and its credibility is declining.
did wrong. Her sanctioning is not about
CNN is trying to follow the public opinion.
misconduct, it’s about silencing a voice
What happened with Albanese and CNN
that the system can no longer ignore or
looks more like a plan to keep things under
discredit through the usual tactics. The
control, not just some random
visual rupture comes from social media.
contradiction. It operates on three levels;
firstly, by Suppressing Structural Truth.

Sanctioning Albanese is an attempt by the

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