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How social media skews our perception of conflict

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Mar 05, 2026
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South Hebron Hills, occupied Palestine, April 2025.

Liam Syed is an independent journalist and photographer who has covered a range of conflicts in the last two years. All photos included are his own. Follow his work @liamsyed.

Before I ever set foot in a conflict zone, my understanding of war came from three places: my grandmother’s stories of the Blitz …

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