Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Israel-Meta nexus stifles pro-Palestine voices on Facebook, Instagram amid genocide

from PressTV

Recently leaked internal data has exposed Meta’s compliance rate of 94 percent with Israeli takedown requests since October 7, 2023, revealing the tech giant’s systematic silencing of content critical of Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza.

The data was provided to the Drop Site website by whistleblowers, exposing the operational details of Meta’s “Integrity Organization”—a department claiming to ensure safety and authenticity across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

The leaked data reveals that the Israeli regime, known as “the biggest originator of takedown requests globally,” is unique in its success in censoring speech, with a mere 1.3 percent of its takedown requests affecting Israeli users.

The leaked information confirms the American multinational technology conglomerate’s compliance with Israeli requests to conduct what has been termed the “largest mass censorship operation in modern history,” predominantly targeting users from Arab and Muslim-majority nations.

In total, users from over 60 countries have reported censorship of Palestine-related content, with the top 12 affected countries being Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Algeria, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, respectively...

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

RT reacts to Meta restrictions

from RT

US Big Tech cannot stop RT from making its voice heard, the Russian news outlet said on Tuesday, following Meta’s decision to ban it from its platforms.

On Monday, the company behind Facebook and Instagram announced that it would remove several news networks, including RT, from its applications over the coming days. It cited their purported “foreign interference activity” to justify the move, aligning with allegations made last week by the US government.

RT commented on the attack against it by saying the contrast between the West’s declared support for fair competition and the actions aimed at undermining it was “cute.”

“META/Facebook already blocked RT in Europe two years ago, now they’re censoring information flow to the rest of the world,” the statement added, referring to the American company’s compliance with an EU-wide band of RT, which the bloc imposed following the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in 2022...

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