Washington Post [read free]: “You might be seeing violent, abhorrent videos in your social media feeds from Israel and Gaza. Those images have included the apparent killing of Israeli hostages, dead bodies and other cruelties. Those online videos can feed a hunger for information for people in Israel and Gaza in the absence of official information about their loved ones. And they show the world the horrors of war. But you need to know that some of the videos, photos and posts you’re seeing on social media might be fake or misleading. They may also violate the dignity, privacy and human rights of people in those images and videos. Some of the graphic images also appear to break the policies of social media companies that typically prohibit graphic violence when it’s deployed for propaganda purposes or show mutilated bodies, depending on the context. But those violent images in your feeds are unlikely to stop and they aren’t easy to avoid if you’re on social media. Apps like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, are often designed to play one video after another as you scroll or show you posts that are getting a lot of attention. I have instructions below to change the settings in many apps to make sure videos only play if you choose. Some apps also give you the option to limit or apply warnings to graphic images that you might not want to see…”