Source: Antiwar.com
by Ramzy Baroud
“Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship, with consequences that can only be described as dire. Long before the current devastating war on Gaza and the escalation of Israeli violence and repression in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices have been censored. Some date the censorship to an agreement in 2016 that, according to the Israeli government, sought to ‘force social networks to remove content that Israel considers to be incitement.’ This was translated, almost immediately, to the shutting down of thousands of accounts and the barring of many social media influencers, with the hope of slowing down the vastly growing pro-Palestinian tendencies in all Meta-linked platforms.” (12/27/24)