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<h1 class="reader-title">Facebook takes down page of Palestine
news site</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">October 11, 2019</div>
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<p>Facebook on Wednesday deleted the page of <i>the
Palestinian Information</i><b><i> </i></b><i>Centre</i>
(PIC) in a move, the news site says, which is part of
its war on Palestinian content on social media networks.</p>
<p>The site’s management said Facebook provided them with
no prior warning before deleting the page, which had
nearly five million followers, without any
justification.</p>
<p>They called on Facebook to reinstate the page and stop
its battle against Palestinian content, saying they have
contested the ban.</p>
<p><a href="https://english.palinfo.com/" target="_blank"><i>The
Palestinian Information</i><b><i> </i></b><i>Centre</i></a>
has previously been forced to suspend posting on
Facebook after the social media giant banned the
accounts of some of its directors. Member of management
have also seen their accounts deleted and removed.</p>
<p>The blocking of the PIC’s page comes as part of an
extensive campaign in recent weeks that included many
Palestinian social media platforms.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Information Centre was founded in
December 1997 in Arabic, as the first Palestinian news
site, dedicated to advocating the Palestinian cause and
the Arab conflict with the Zionist occupier. It is
biased in favour of the rights of the Palestinian people
and their sanctities and the legitimate right to resist
the occupier by all legitimate and internationally
guaranteed means. It is the only Palestinian site that
broadcasts its material in eight languages.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, journalists and activists in
Palestine launched a social media <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191009-campaign-launched-to-end-facebooks-attack-on-palestinian-content/">campaign
against Facebook’s censorship</a> of Palestinian
content.</p>
<p>Using the hashtag <a
href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FBblocksPalestine&src=typd&lang=en"
target="_blank">FBblocksPalestine</a>, the drive hopes
to bring to light “the threat posed by Facebook against
Palestinian content, and to make it public, as well as
reveal the double-standard policy of Facebook management
in dealing with Israeli and Palestinian incitement on
its site,” says Eyad Rifai, head of Sada Social Centre
which is running the drive.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Israel pass Facebook Bill
which will authorise deleting content considered
incitement – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]</p>
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