WATCH: Secretary of State Blinken Points Finger at Social Media for Opposition to Israel’s Assault on Gaza | HNGN [Video]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed social media in part for widespread pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s military actions in Gaza, saying it has a “very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”

During a public discussion Friday with outgoing Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Blinken said there were “two things” driving the global reaction to Israel’s war against Hamas, starting with the “inescapable reality of people who have and continue to suffer grievously in Gaza.”

But Blinken also that during his 30-plus years in Washington, D.C., the “single biggest change has been in the information environment.”

“We are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs, every millisecond, and, of course, the way this has played out on social media has dominated the narrative,” he said. “You have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates, and we can’t we can’t discount that.”

He added: “I think it …