Meta IS suppressing Palestinian content.

JVL Introduction

On the same day that 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media released a new report titled “Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta’s Censorship”, the BBC has also published evidence of Meta’s discriminatory practices.  We are pleased to see and to post the BBC Report but we would strongly recommend reading the 18 page report Erased and Suppressed by 7amleh.  It has 20 direct testimonies from Palestinian journalists, and media outlets impacted by Meta’s discriminatory practices. “It exposes Meta’s approach to silencing Palestinian content and suppressing the Palestinian narrative, particularly during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The report comes amid escalating violence, killings, and destruction, alongside the targeting of Palestinian journalists — the only channel left to communicate the narrative and share information, especially as Gaza’s communication infrastructure is destroyed and international journalists are barred from entry.”

In addition to suppressing Palestinian voices, it has allowed “more than 15 million inciting posts in Hebrew against Palestinians were documented across social media platforms since October 2023, as recorded by 7amleh’s AI-powered language model, the Violence Indicator.”

(Quotes in the introduction are from 7amleh’s post about their Report.)

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This article was originally published by BBC on Wed 18 Dec 2024. Read the original here.