Facebook’s attack on Palestinian content, takes down page of Palestine news
Mon 14 October 2019:
Facebook on Wednesday deleted the page of the Palestinian Information Centre (PIC) in a move, the news site says, which is part of its war on Palestinian content on social media networks.
The site’s management said Facebook provided them with no prior warning before deleting the page, which had nearly five million followers, without any justification.
They called on Facebook to reinstate the page and stop its battle against Palestinian content, saying they have contested the ban.
The Palestinian Information Centre has previously been forced to suspend posting on Facebook after the social media giant banned the accounts of some of its directors. Member of management have also seen their accounts deleted and removed.
The blocking of the PIC’s page comes as part of an extensive campaign in recent weeks that included many Palestinian social media platforms.
The Palestinian Information Centre was founded in December 1997 in Arabic, as the first Palestinian news site, dedicated to advocating the Palestinian cause and the Arab conflict with the Zionist occupier. It is biased in favour of the rights of the Palestinian people and their sanctities and the legitimate right to resist the occupier by all legitimate and internationally guaranteed means. It is the only Palestinian site that broadcasts its material in eight languages.
Earlier this week, journalists and activists in Palestine launched a social media campaign against Facebook’s censorship of Palestinian content.
Using the hashtag FBblocksPalestine, the drive hopes to bring to light “the threat posed by Facebook against Palestinian content, and to make it public, as well as reveal the double-standard policy of Facebook management in dealing with Israeli and Palestinian incitement on its site,” says Eyad Rifai, head of Sada Social Centre which is running the drive.
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