[News] 91 violations against pro-Palestine content on social media in November

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 Watchdog: 91 violations against pro-Palestine content on social media in
November
A Palestinian woman takes a picture of an Israeli soldier as he takes her
picture in a street in Jerusalem on December 16, 2017. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP
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December 5, 2021 - https://qudsnen.co/?p=32346

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Social media platforms have committed 91
violations against Palestinian content in November only as documented by
Sada Social, the watchdog said today.

The watchdog described November as the worst in regard to social media
violations against pro-Palestine content.

It also noted that Meta has continued its crackdown on pro-Palestine
content and pages.

“The Meta company is still dealing with Palestinian content upon the
Israeli dictates, besieging Palestinian terminology and narrative, and
restricting media platforms for covering the events on the ground through
their accounts”, it said.

According to Sada Social, Meta’s Facebook platform banned and restricted
over 65 accounts, while its Instagram platform committed 17 violations
against Palestinian content.

The accounts, which were targeted were mostly news accounts and pages. Sada
Social’s report mentioned Maydan Al Quds and Al Qastal’s pages, which were
both removed from Facebook due to their coverage of Jerusalem’s resistance
operation by Fadi Abu Shkeidem.

The watchdog also documented five violations on Twitter, three on Tik Tok,
and one on YouTube.

In one year only, Facebook removed over 350 Palestinian pages while at the
same time kept thousands of Israeli pages, which incited Arabs. The company
has officially acknowledged that it accepts 90% of requests by the Israeli
government to remove Palestinian accounts and pages. The Israeli minister,
who is responsible for communication with Meta, has been known for racist
anti-Palestinian comments, calling for the elimination of Palestinian
mothers and children.

A report by The Intercept revealed that Facebook has a secret blacklist,
upon which its algorithms depend in censoring content. The blacklist
includes dozens of Palestinian figures and organizations and zero Israeli
targets.

Also, an investigation by Human Rights Watch stated
<https://qudsnen.co/?p=30174>that Facebook and Instagram repressed
Palestinian content, including documentation of Israeli human rights
violations, during the Israeli crackdown on native Palestinians in May this
year. The investigation pushed Facebook to promise
<https://qudsnen.co/?p=30421>that it will allow an independent body to
launch an investigation into content moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts,
however, its policy has not changed.
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