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<h1 class="reader-title">Social media suppresses up to 80%
pro-Palestine content</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">December 24, 2020</div>
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<p>Palestinian social media posts have been suppressed by
as much as 80 per cent, a new study by Sada Social
Centre has found. Details of the worrying scale of this
anti-Palestinian censorship was uncovered by the NGO
which monitors social media content related to Palestine
and campaigns for free expression.</p>
<p>Experts spoken to by the organisation said that the
sudden increase in the suppression of content follows
the normalisation of some Arab countries with Israel in
recent months. Sadia's finding confirm those of ImpACT
International for Human Rights Policies. <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200608-facebook-accused-of-blocking-palestinian-activists-accounts/">In
June</a>, the London-based think tank discovered that
Facebook had blocked accounts belonging to Palestinian
activists, bloggers and journalists, violating their
right to voice opinions freely.</p>
<p>Palestinians have for years complained that <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191020-the-war-on-truth-how-israels-social-media-trolls-conquered-facebook/">Facebook
is targeting their accounts</a>, deleting <a
href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191011-facebook-takes-down-page-of-palestine-news-site/">them
without notice</a>. The latest suspicions about
content suppression were raised when Sada was inundated
with complaints from Palestinians and Arabs with
accounts onFacebook regarding a sharp drop of between 50
and 80 per cent in the number of people accessing their
posts. Most of the people who complained are said to
have millions of followers on social media.</p>
<p>An investigation revealed that these platforms were
publishing content only in Arabic that highlighted the
normalisation of Arab countries with the Zionist state.
Social media experts confirmed that the suppression was
planned and orchestrated. Apparently this can be done
relatively easily through the management of data
algorithms in Facebook, which isn't always easy to
detect.</p>
<p>A <a
href="http://sada.social/45-violations-against-palestinian-digital-content-during-january-2020/"
target="_blank">list of Palestinian media agencies</a>
which experienced content suppression was published by
Sada Social Centre earlier this year when it identified
45 cases of content suppression in a single month. While
Facebook is said to be the most frequent offender,Tik
Tok also censors Palestine-related content. The
organisation has asked Facebook to clarify why this is
happening.</p>
<p>It is also calling on international human rights bodies
to follow up on this issue and speak out against the
threat it poses to freedom of expression.</p>
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