eFinder

eFinder

Home › Financial Hegemony › Article

‘The world is sounding an alarm’: Why big tech is the new colonist

Al Jazeera · · 1186 words · By Sinem Koseoglu
Financial Hegemony Global South Vulnerability Digital Colonialism
open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/5/14/the-world-is-sounding-an-alarm-why-…

psychologyDetected Techniques

warning
Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
warning
Exaggeration / Hyperbole 70% confidence
Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.

fact_checkFact-Check Results

9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

check_circle Corroborated 3
verified Verified By Reference 3
info Single Source 2
help Insufficient Evidence 1
check_circle
“investigations by Al Jazeera and other media outlets in 2024 revealed that Israeli-linked artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Lavender and Gospel had helped generate thousands of military targets in Gaza”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent sources, including The Guardian, EL PAÍS, India Today, and Wikipedia, confirm that the Israeli military used AI systems called Lavender and Gospel to identify thousands of targets in Gaza.
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — As part of the Gaza war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have used artificial intelligence to rapidly and automatically perform much of the process of determining what to bomb. Israel has greatly expa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G…
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Air Force conducted numerous concerted aerial bombardment campaigns on the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war until the enactment of a ceasefire in October 2025. Since then, less frequent stri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_St…
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) has many applications in warfare, including in communications, intelligence, and munitions control. AI is not limited to new weapons such as drones or strategic means such…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_applications_of_artif…
+ 3 more evidence sources
check_circle
“in September 2024, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by members of Hezbollah exploded in coordinated attacks in Lebanon, widely attributed to Israeli intelligence operations”
CORROBORATED
The coordinated explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in September 2024 are confirmed by Wikipedia and The Guardian, with widespread attribution to Israeli intelligence.
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in two separate events across Lebanon and Syria, in an Is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device…
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2 March 2026, there has been an ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. It is a resumption of major fighting in the Hezbollah–Israel conflict that b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lebanon_war
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…
+ 3 more evidence sources
verified
“reporting by Al Jazeera also raised concerns about the use of cloud and data infrastructure linked to major US technology companies in Israeli surveillance operations involving Palestinians”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'major' and general history of the conflict, but contains no information regarding US tech companies' cloud infrastructure being used for Israeli surveillance.
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli–Palesti…
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israeli war crimes are violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which Israeli security forces have committed or been accused o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the ongoing Gaza war, Israeli male and female soldiers, guards and medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian women, children and men including rape, ga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…
+ 3 more evidence sources
verified
“Esra Albayrak, board chair of the NUN Foundation for Education and Culture and daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Al Jazeera during the World Decolonization Forum in Istanbul on May 11-12”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
Wikipedia and web search results confirm Esra Erdoğan Albayrak is the daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the chair of the NUN Foundation's Board of Trustees.
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Esra Erdoğan Albayrak (born 14 October 1983 in Istanbul) is a Turkish social sciences researcher, education administrator, and civil society figure. She is the daughter of Turkish president Recep Tayy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra_Erdoğan
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of notable Turkish Germans. This includes people of full or partial ethnic Turkish origin born in Germany, as well as ethnic Turkish immigrants who have arrived in Germany eith…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkish_Germans
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — Esra Erdoğan Albayrak is a Turkish social sciences researcher, education administrator, and civil society figure. She is the daughter of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emine Erdoğan, and t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra_Erdoğan
+ 2 more evidence sources
info
“most major AI models are still trained largely on English-language and Western-produced data”
SINGLE SOURCE
The provided evidence explains what LLMs are and mentions AI dangers, but does not provide specific data or confirmation regarding the linguistic or regional composition of training datasets for major models.
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — Comparison and analysis of AI models across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & others.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — Large language models are AI systems capable of understanding and generating human language by processing vast amounts of text data.
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/large-language-models
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — He pioneered AI, now he’s warning the world. Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton breaks his silence on the deadly dangers of AI no one is prepared for.Geoffrey H...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg
verified
“Walter D Mignolo, professor at Duke University”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
Wikipedia and multiple academic/web sources explicitly state that Walter D. Mignolo is a professor at Duke University.
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was ini…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University_Press
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2006 Duke University lacrosse case resulted in a great deal of coverage in the local and national media as well as a widespread community response at Duke and in the Durham, North Carolina area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Duke_lacrosse…
menu_book
wikipedia NEUTRAL — Walter D. Mignolo (born May 1, 1941) is an Argentine semiotician (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and professor at Duke University who has published extensively on semiotics and li…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo
+ 3 more evidence sources
info
“The March 2026 Global Debt Report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals that 44 countries face severe debt burdens”
SINGLE SOURCE
The evidence provided describes the OECD in general terms but does not mention a 'March 2026 Global Debt Report' or the specific figure of 44 countries facing severe debt burdens.
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — The OECD sets the rules governing international taxation for multinationals through the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations, a Model Tax Convention a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — Working with over 100 countries, the OECD is a global policy forum that promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
https://www.oecd.org/
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a unique forum where the governments of 37 democracies with market-based economies collaborate to develop policy standards to promo…
https://www.state.gov/the-organization-for-economic-co-opera…
check_circle
“BlackRock, which manages $13 trillion in assets”
CORROBORATED
Wikipedia lists assets at $12.5 trillion, while another web source explicitly states BlackRock manages over $13 trillion in assets, corroborating the general scale of the claim.
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's larg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — By 2026, BlackRock said it had nearly $150 billion connected to digital assets: $65 billion in stablecoin reserves and nearly $80 billion in digital asset ETPs. The message is clear: tokenization is n…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cointelegraph_blackrock-manag…
travel_explore
web search NEUTRAL — The world's largest asset manager is expanding its BUIDL tokenized fund across multiple blockchains and into DeFi, signaling that tokenization is no longer a side project.BlackRock managing $2.4 billi…
https://cryptobriefing.com/blackrock-tokenization-buidl-onch…
help
“Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem “The White Man’s Burden”, published as the US took control of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was provided or found in the search results for this specific claim.
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.