There’s no doubt a key driver behind opposition to the Gaza massacre, especially among normie types, has been the footage from smartphones showing the mass destruction and casualties.

Hypothetically, if the War in Iraq occurred with 2023 smartphone technology, how would this have impacted public opinion?

Would Bush have been re-elected in 2004?

Also, for historians of the war, is there a particular atrocity during the war that has been documented by activists or watchdogs but has limited photographic evidence, that had it been recorded by smartphone, could have single-handedly turned the tide of public opinion?

  • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Probably not immediately. YouTube from its inception until about 2010 or so was nothing but videos taken by US soldiers on shitty cell phones with "let the bodies hit the floor" playing as they committed war crimes. One thing that possibly could have had an effect would be more videos leaking that showed the abu graib style shit soldiers got up to.