I read this article when it was written in 2014, and it was the thing that made me delete my account. I was completely disgusted. I remember telling a friend about it the same day I read it, and they didn’t believe me, thought I was peddling a conspiracy theory, to the point that I had to find the article again to be sure I hadn’t imagined it. As far as I know, there were no consequences and no one was held accountable.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Fuck Israel.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wish facebook a very go out of business forever and for its execs a very long jail

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 8 points 11 months ago

This has been going on long before Oct 7:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/panel-discussion-israel-intelligence-facebook-google-censorship-palestinian-voices/277302/

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/14/facebook-israel-zionist-moderation/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/facebook-jordana-cutler-israel-ministry-sparking-censorship-fear/283445/

[–] JiminyPicket@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I created an instagram account two weeks ago. Everything was fine until I liked a pro-Palestine comment. Suddenly my account was suspended. No other possible reason, and this has happened to multiple people. The government and tech are trying to control social media and the populace. All these changes to twitter (I won't ever call it "X"), reddit - this is all intentional, ahead of the US election. Soon, they'll be requiring personal I.D. to use any social media - you will not be allowed any privacy or anonymity online.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Palestine bad, homie

careful what you post/like

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The company exhibited “six key patterns of undue censorship” of content in support of Palestine and Palestinians, including the taking down of posts, stories and comments; disabling accounts; restricting users’ ability to interact with others’ posts; and “shadow banning”, where the visibility and reach of a person’s material is significantly reduced, according to HRW.

Examples it cites include content originating from more than 60 countries, mostly in English, and all in “peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways”.

In a statement to the Guardian, Meta acknowledged it makes errors that are “frustrating” for people, but said that “the implication that we deliberately and systemically suppress a particular voice is false.

Meta said it was the only company in the world to have publicly released human rights due diligence on issues related to Israel and Palestine .

Last week Elizabeth Warren, Democratic senator for Massachusetts, wrote to Meta’s co-founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, demanding information following hundreds of reports from Instagram users dating back to October that their content was demoted or removed, and their accounts subjected to shadow banning.

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