Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Meta is systematically censoring content about Palestine on Instagram and Facebook.
“Meta’s censorship is furthering the erasure of Palestinians’ suffering,” said HRW’s Deborah Brown in a new report.
The human rights organisation said it reviewed 1,050 cases of online censorship and found six broad categories:
- Content removals
- Suspension or deletion of accounts
- Inability to engage with content
- Inability to follow or tag accounts
- Restrictions on the use of features such as Instagram/Facebook Live
- “Shadow banning”, meaning a significant decrease in visibility without notifying the account holder
