Tech giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, has come under fire for ‘systemic and global’ censorship of Palestine-related content. Former employees have expressed frustration about what they term Meta’s campaign to silence voices speaking up about the plight of Palestinians enduring Israel’s Western-backed 76-year occupation. They raised their concern to Meta’s management to no avail. While Israel k*lls their relatives in Gaza, Meta has already fired two employees who spoke to Al Jazeera Network’s AJ+, which recently released an exposé of Meta’s reported bias against pro-Palestine users in an investigation titled, ‘Inside Meta’s Palestine Censorship.’
Meta was one of the tech companies that banned African Stream after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on September 13 that we are ‘Kremlin propagandists’ who are ‘secretly run’ by Russian-state TV network RT, without offering any evidence. Perhaps one of the reasons Meta booted us is we have consistently stood with Palestine as part of our commitment to be ‘with the lions, not the hunters.’ We tell the stories of all oppressed people, regardless of race, nationality and creed. We weave the thread to show how much Africa’s liberation struggles have in common with Palestine’s struggle for liberation from imperialist occupation.
We will not be silenced, though. When Palestine is finally free, African Stream will be included in the annals of voices that courageously spoke for our brothers and sisters.
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Video credit: AJ+ @ajplus
https://www.accessnow.org/publication/how-meta-censors-palestinian-voices/
https://www.techpolicy.press/a-perspective-on-metas-moderation-of-palestinian-voices/