Big Tech censors Palestinian advocacy, facilitates far-right Israeli violence

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Kelly Kunzl tells disturbing story in this report on Mondoweiss.

Social media are of vital significance for groups protesting about the powerful and the oppressors in today’s world.

But social media are not necessarily neutral. They respond to pressures on them to disrupt communications and censor those whom certain governments and pressure groups deem unruly.

Kunzl reports widespread violation of Palestinians rights with accounts being deactivated and stories blocked. And points to the Israeli Cyber Unit, an intelligence branch of the IDF, involved in generating request for censorship.

At the same time hate speech against Palestinians remains unregulated, with far-right groups using social media to openly advocate violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem and the so-called mixed cities in Israel proper.

See also the Haaretz Editorial Incitement on Social Media Is Also Violence.

This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Wed 26 May 2021. Read the original here.