Common Dreams:
"Around 200 graduating students at Stanford University in California walked out of Sunday’s commencement speech by Google CEO Sundar Pichai to protest his company’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown.

With graduating students across the country booing commencement speakers who mention artificial intelligence, Pichai was careful to avoid discussing the historically disruptive—and potentially apocalyptic—technology during his speech, even joking about the difficulty of doing so given his job and the fact that his name can’t be spelled without the “ai” at the end. It was an apparently wise decision, especially given a recent interview in which he opined that humans aren’t “evolved” enough to fully understand the profound technology shift AI is driving.

However, protesting students were already walking out and chanting, “Free, Free Palestine!” by the time Pichai started speaking. Students waved Palestinian flags and blew whistles as they marched out of the venue."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/stanford-graduation-walk-out  

-->The mainstream media would like us to focus on other issues, rather than on the continued genocide in Gaza. The fact that the student movement for Palestinian rights is as powerful as ever will not be covered in the NYT. 

Intercept:
Israel’s government asked Meta to censor social media content about its ongoing war against Iran, according to internal documents viewed by The Intercept.

Company records show that Israel petitioned Meta to take down Facebook and Instagram posts expressing support for Iran, opposition to Israel, and even depictions of Iranian missile impacts.

The government flagged a variety of materials related to the war, including posts mourning the death of Ayatollah Khamenei following his assassination by the U.S. and Israel on the opening day of the conflict, content supportive of Iran’s retaliatory attacks, and Iranian accounts that shared military analysis and propaganda sympathetic to the Iranian regime’s perspective.

In some cases, Meta complied with the censorship requests, the records show, though it is unclear on what grounds. Meta maintains that it only removes content as required by law or materials that violate its speech policies. ...

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/israel-facebook-censor-content-moderation-iran-war/ 

 

-->Israel telling Meta what to take down on Facebook. Both Israel and Instagram are part of the genocide coverup. When will the NYT publish this story?

Mondoweiss:
Maryland pension system divests 85% of Israeli Bond holdings amid pressure campaign

Last month the Maryland Break the Bonds Campaign, a local coalition of organizations and activists, announced that the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has divested roughly 85% of its Israeli bond holdings.

The move represents a $62 million in divestment from Israeli sovereign bonds and is believed largest state-level divestment from Israeli bonds thus far.

"I’m with CAIR Maryland, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and we are a coalition member of the Break the Bonds campaign in Maryland. We’ve been working closely with Jewish Voice voice for Peace’s DC Metro and Baltimore chapters to hold our state’s pension and retirement system accountable and making sure that they are divesting state funds, pension funds, from Israeli bonds." 
https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/emails/webview/59730/189191322969572760


-->This is a big win for divestment. The story is covered by a number of Jewish organizations, but nothing from the NYT, which treats the BDS movement like it treats Bernie.

 

The Intercept:
"The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found.

La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern media brand for Latin American audiences with articles published in both Spanish and English. Its name references the accent mark emphasizing vowels in Spanish; “news with an accent” is the site’s catchphrase. ...

So far, La Tilde’s coverage amounts to an unusual blend of personal finance tips (“Why instant payments matter so much for your business and your wallet”) and articles extolling the value of U.S. military operations in Latin America (“Operation Absolute Resolve: The mission that captured Nicolás Maduro and set a new standard for precision and coordination”).

Its article on the U.S. abduction of the Venezuelan president praises the mission in Trumpian prose, calling it “The Perfect Operation – Coordination, Timing and Precision at an Unprecedented Scale,” and “a military operation of coordination and accuracy never seen before.” Citing “information obtained exclusively by La Tilde,” it describes the operation’s tactical brilliance, flawless execution, and incredibly precise coordination of military assets in the air and on the ground."
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/02/la-tilde-propaganda-latin-america-pentagon/


-->The Pentagon's AI propaganda isn't covered by the NYT. We get all sorts of stories about AI, but nothing on how our Pentagon uses it.