American ‘The Intercept’ website: Facebook agrees to advertisements calling for the annihilation of Palestinians… Details
Human rights organizations have revealed the double standards that Facebook adopts in dealing with the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. and its support for the crimes and violations committed by the occupation state against the Palestinians.
The American The Intercept website revealed that Facebook approved the publication of a series of advertisements dehumanizing Palestinians and calling for their killing. These ads, sent by human rights organizations to test the content monitoring standards of the application. were published in both Arabic and Hebrew. Some of them included explicit calls to kill Palestinian civilians. and others called for a “holocaust against the Palestinians” and the elimination of “women, children, and the elderly in Gaza.”
The advertisements and posts presented by the Campaign Center, affiliated with the Arab Center for Social Media Development, and approved by the application, bypassed the content control imposed by the application on Arabic content. They included other posts that described some Gaza children as “future terrorists” and contained offensive phrases targeting Arabs and Palestinians.
The idea of sending these advertisements to Facebook to test its censorship algorithms came after Nadim Nashif. the founder of the Campaign Center. discovered an ad on his Facebook page last month explicitly calling for the assassination of the American activist Paul Larudee. one of the founders of the Free Gaza Movement.
The ad published by the Israeli right-wing group AD Kan read: “It is time to assassinate Paul Larudee. the anti-Semitic and human rights terrorist from the United States.” Facebook later deleted the ad after Nashif reported it.
AD Kan is an Israeli right-wing group founded by former officers in the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli intelligence. It aims to combat “organizations hostile to Israel” that are funded by anti-Semitic sources, according to The Intercept.
The newspaper quoted Nadim Nashif as saying. “Approval of these advertisements is the latest development in a series of failures by Meta towards the Palestinian people.” He added, “Throughout this crisis, we have witnessed a consistent pattern of bias and clear discrimination by Meta against the Palestinians.”
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