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NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemm.ee )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

www.theguardian.com

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Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

www.theguardian.com

NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemm.ee )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
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  • Bipta ( Bipta@kbin.social ) 
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    This certainly increases my support for defederating Threads.

  • Omega_Haxors ( Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) Banned
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    I wish facebook a very go out of business forever and for its execs a very long jail

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    Remember when Facebook unethically ran experiments to see if they could make people sad? We should have hanged the board of directors then.

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    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.

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      Palestine bad, homie

      careful what you post/like

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    Besides Instagram and maybe Whatsapp, what services does Facebook(Meta) provide that are gonna survive the boomer extinction?

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      Llama?

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        The language model? It’s open source and more catered towards developers than consumers, but yes it’s here to stay along with react and other developer tools.

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    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/

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    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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