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Tell Meta: Stop Silencing Palestine
March 13, 2025
We renew our call to Meta to stop its systemic censorship of Palestinian voices by overhauling its content moderation practices and policies that continue to restrict content about Palestine. Two years after our initial campaign, our demands remain unmet. Given the ongoing conflict, the urgency for Meta to address our—now updated—recommendations is greater than ever.
Our Letter and Meta’s Response
January 5, 2025
A coalition of Palestinian and global digital groups, representatives of the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign, received a formal response from Meta to inquiries raised in a March 14, 2024 letter to Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. The letter was sent following a meeting held with the company’s executive and senior staff on February 22, 2024. It reiterated our concerns about the systemic censorship of Palestinians and pro-Palestinian advocates on Meta’s platforms, the proliferation of speech inciting violence against Palestinians, and the urgent need for policy shifts to better protect digital rights during times of crisis. In its response, Meta laid out in generic terms how they dealt with harmful content in the ongoing events in Israel and Palestine, adopted temporary measures “to keep people safe” and explained its approaches towards AI and automation, government takedown requests, and evidence retention. However, Meta failed to outline, in concrete terms, the steps it has taken to identify the negative impacts of its policies and actions on human rights and how it is mitigating them, particularly in light of the plausibility of genocide and the perpetration of other atrocities in Gaza. While we welcome Meta’s continuous engagement with us, we find the response to be insufficient to provide...
Press Release 14 March 2024
March 5, 2024
Palestinian and global digital rights groups bring top Meta executive to the table on issues of anti-Palestinian censorship On February 22, a group of Palestinian and global digital rights organizations held a meeting with Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, Neil Potts (VP for Public Policy within the Trust & Safety divisions), and Miranda Sissons (global human rights policy lead), to discuss the systematic censorship of Palestinians on Meta’s platforms. The advocates were representatives of the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign, which recently issued a series of demands. Those demands focused on challenging Meta’s content moderation practices which led to systemic censorship of Palestinian voices and restriction of content about Palestine by offering recommendations for policy shifts and other measures to better protect digital rights during this conflict. The meeting delved into issues such as the over-moderation of Palestine-related content, Meta’s algorithmic bias against Palestinians, the disparity in its crisis response compared with other instances of armed conflict and military occupation, and the continued proliferation of hate speech and incitement to violence on Meta’s platforms. “Civil society can no longer accept piecemeal solutions to the systematic suppression of Palestinian voices online. We demand a serious show of political will and commitment to human...