• jet@hackertalks.com
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    "Al Jazeera Arabic presenter Tamer Almisshal has had his Facebook profile deleted by Meta 24 hours after the programme Tip of the Iceberg aired an investigation into Meta’s censorship of Palestinian content titled The Locked Space.

    The programme’s investigation, which aired on Friday, included admissions by Eric Barbing, former head of Israel’s cybersecurity apparatus, about his organisation’s effort to track Palestinian content according to criteria that included “liking” a photo of a Palestinian killed by Israeli forces."

    Deplatforming journalists, or anyone, is a terrible thing to do.

  • Andy@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Oof. I just want to say as a Jew that is constantly trying to dispel the myth of Jewish media conspiracies, Zuck really isn’t doing us any favors here.

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Meta is a private company and can do whatever it wants. Nothing to see here. Yea…go ahead down vote me

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      It can, but that doesnt mean ít’s excused from criticism if it does something incredibly stupid and amoral.

    • BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
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      This is true, and the reason people need to stop using social media as their source for news.

      When a company has sophisticated algorithms ment to only show you things that will get you engaged - you are not getting unbiased news. Add Meta’s personal agendas on top of that and you get the shitshow that is facebook as a news source.