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Palestine is already living under the Big Tech authoritarianism the world is being sold

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Briefings

Research indicates that emerging technologies are central to systems of coercion and control, with Israel's surveillance industry integrating military and intelligence tools into commercial security solutions. Evidence shows AI-assisted targeting systems like Lavender and Where's Daddy are used to identify Palestinians for lethal violence, while platforms suppress Palestinian speech and erase physical evidence of atrocities. The destruction of Gaza threatens to destroy the evidence needed to secure accountability for these systems.

Key points

• Israel's surveillance industry operates through intimate ties between military and intelligence institutions, private companies, and venture capital to extract and process data as a means of exercising power.
• AI-assisted targeting systems such as Lavender, The Gospel, and Where's Daddy have been documented as being folded into the identification and targeting of Palestinians in Gaza for lethal violence.

Context

This briefing comes from a Global Voices article published October 2026, exploring how Big Tech facilitates authoritarianism in the Global South. The findings are based on research from the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media's Maryam Abu Daqqa Fellowship, which examines AI, surveillance, and corporate power in Palestine.

Limitations

Evidence is limited to documented cases of AI targeting, platform suppression of speech, and physical destruction of evidence. Specific causal claims regarding future trends remain unverified, and the extent of data extraction by specific Israeli companies remains unclear.

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