Facebook will allow an independent investigation into content moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts after the social media giant has been accused of removing and suppressing pro-Palestine content, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
The enthusiasm with which much of the media and political establishment have characterized Frances Haugen as a “Facebook whistleblower” requires that we pause to consider what exactly we think the term “whistleblower” means. Haugen has […]
Facebook has “wrongfully removed” content by Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. According to the New York-based international NGO, Facebook unfairly removed posts describing human rights abuses […]
Facebook’s Oversight board has recommended on Tuesday an independent review into bias in moderating posts related to Israel and Palestinians. This came as part of an Oversight Board case about the sharing of an Al […]
The digital rights group CitizenLab has discovered a vulnerability that allowed Israeli spyware company NSO Group to implant its Pegasus malware onto virtually every iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch device. CitizenLab revealed the vulnerability on […]
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers started a campaign on social media platforms, demanding greater authority to shoot Palestinians and change the Israeli Army’s protocols regarding opening fire at Palestinians. The campaign, under the title “Untie Our […]
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish […]
Facebook has reinstated the permissions of a Palestinian reporter’s account after his access was restricted for posting a message from imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar about her dead daughter, according to reports. The limits on […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have dismissed the head of the Palestinian National Library, Ihab Bseiso, for criticizing the security services’ extrajudicial killing of political opponent Nizar Banat. Local media outlets said […]
Beverage giant Coca-Cola is being criticized for a new tool that fails to let customers personalize their own bottles of coke with ‘Palestine’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’ while allowing offensive phrases like ‘White pride’, ‘fascism,’ […]
Facebook blocked former Mauritanian Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Maham from posting on his page after he welcomed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who is visiting Nouakchott, Safa news agency reported yesterday. The former official welcomed Haniyeh […]
Moroccan activists have launched a campaign calling for the expulsion of the head of Israel’s Liaison Office in Rabat, David Govrin. Activists took to Facebook and Twitter using the Arabic hashtag ‘expel the representative of […]
Nearly 200 Facebook employees have signed an open letter calling for the company’s leadership to address concerns that pro-Palestine voices are being suppressed by the social media giant. The letter follows Israel’s latest aggression on […]
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, said on Tuesday that the Israeli plans to expel Palestinian families from their homes in the city’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood will not succeed, […]
The Israeli prime minister attempted to shut down social media after Israeli-national Palestinians held protests against Israel’s attacks on East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip under blockade, a report said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. According to […]
Israel’s former defense minister was caught out this week by Pakistani social media users who highlighted the right-wing politician’s false use of a photo of a Pakistani hospital to describe the “headquarters” of Hamas in […]
WhatsApp has become the latest social media platform to block Palestinian access to its service, with Palestinian journalists saying they have been unable to access the messaging software following the latest round of Israeli bombardment. […]
Pop singer Dua Lipa took to Twitter on Saturday to angrily denounce a full-page advertisement in the New York Times that accused her of being anti-Semitic, reports Anadolu Agency. The ad from the World Values […]
A digital rights group and a number of Palestinian news agencies sent a formal complaint to Facebook on Wednesday “for the arbitrary censorship of content posted on the platform by Palestinian journalists and commentators”. The […]
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been the target of attack adverts on Facebook sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for her criticism of Israel’s violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem and its […]
A social media monitoring group said today that anti-Palestinian racism and incitement by Israelis on social media has increased by 16 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. “7amleh – The Arab Center for Social Media […]
Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and the Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) in Johannesburg have strongly condemned the decision by Facebook to ban a staff member from using its platform for 30 days after he posted an […]
In January 2021, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) announced a global campaign “Facebook, we need to talk” about the social media giant’s inquiry into whether criticism of the movement Zionism “falls within the rubric of […]
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be […]
New Democratic Party member of parliament Randall Garrison recently joined an unofficial task force which is lobbying Facebook and Twitter to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which considers any criticism of Israel or solidarity […]
Ninety percent of the Arabic-language social media posts about Israel’s normalization with the UAE and Bahrain have been negative, according to a report by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Haaretz said that the study […]
If you’re wondering what the hell is going on right now – the “Why is the world turning to shit?” thought – you may find Netflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma a good starting point […]
“If you have any doubt that the panic over “cancel Culture,” writes Steven Salaita, “as presented by the corporate media, is in aggregate a reactionary phenomenon (with a distinctly Zionist subtext),” then consider that for […]
Web-based video-conferencing platform Zoom has canceled a webinar hosted by San Francisco State University in which Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled was to be one of the guest speakers. Facebook and YouTube have also chosen […]
Almost one million people have signed a petition calling on the internet search engine giant, Google, to put Palestine on its maps. “Palestine does not appear on Google maps. Why not? Israel, established on Palestinian […]
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