Overview
- Speaking at the Israel Hayom Summit in New York, Hillary Clinton said Israel faces a severe post–Oct. 7 PR crisis driven by misleading content targeting young Americans.
- Clinton described what she called an organized surge of distorted posts beginning on Oct. 8, which she said quickly reframed perceptions before facts were widely understood.
- Drawing on her teaching at Columbia University, she said students relied on TikTok and short videos, lacked historical context, and struggled to engage in reasoned discussion.
- She warned that AI-generated and unverified clips threaten democratic societies, noting that more than half of young Americans get most of their news from social media.
- Calling the divide primarily generational, she urged direct engagement and modernized outreach, pointing to Zohran Mamdani’s social-media-driven campaign as a model for reaching young voters.