The war on Gaza has unfolded in real time across social media, where civilians have become primary producers of historical record. Yet these platforms operate through opaque systems of moderation, algorithmic filtering, and AI governance that shape what survives and what disappears.
This talk examines what happens when the traditional logic of the archive is inverted—when evidence is generated by the public but controlled by private digital infrastructures. In this upside-down “archives” world, visibility itself becomes a battleground for narrative reclamation. Drawing on archival practice and cases of digital suppression and erasure, I explore how civilian archivists intervene to preserve endangered digital records. Here, archiving emerges as an urgent and radical act of resistance.
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