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Depending on the social media silo that you're in at the moment, your Insta or TikTok or Twitter

might be business as usual, holiday snaps, dance videos, an assortment of ads, the odd news story.

Or it might be a wash with content related to Israel and Gaza. And normally we, the audience, watching news coverage of a war zone,

would get a more sanitized view of what's going on,

the most graphic scenes would be blurred, or would never make it to air. But social media isn't the news, it's people.

And what people are filming and posting from Gaza in particular

feels unlike anything that's hit Instagram or TikTok or Twitter before.

If death had a smell, I'm smelling it right now.

You're seeing it from the perspective of the victim survivors here.

So there is absolute vulnerability that is being seen.

I think the other thing is the impact on children.

On the one hand, these videos have given us a powerful view of what's happening on the ground,

one we wouldn't otherwise get, as Israel has mostly banned foreign journalists from entering

Gaza.

But after eight months of daily videos and images, showing the aftermath of bombings, chaos

and hospitals, dead children, screaming children.

You have to wonder about the cumulative effect of all of that.

We need to know, we should know, we must know.

That is important.

I'm not saying anybody should stop knowing about the world.

We should know, but we should know what to know, how to know, and what's the use of it.

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