META BENEFITS FROM SPREAD OF HATEFUL GAZA WAR-RELATED CONTENT: REPORT

Thu 23 October 2023:

The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media found that Meta – the company that owns Facebook and Instagram – is reaping financial benefits from the dissemination of harmful content on its platforms.

The Palestinian digital rights group’s investigation was prompted by the discovery that Facebook ran targeted ads calling for the assassination of individuals and for the forcible expulsion of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan, Al-Jazeera reported.

The group found 19 ads featuring hate speech and incitement in Hebrew against Arabs and Palestinians in the context of the war on Gaza.

The approved ads included calls to “wipe out Gaza, its women, children and elderly” and other inflammatory phrases that explicitly called for killing Palestinians, burning down all of Gaza, deporting people and calls to carry out a second Nakba.

Israel waged the bloody war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in the occupied territories in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime’s incessant crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

It has also imposed a “complete siege” on the coastal sliver, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques and churches, have been damaged or destroyed in the Israeli offensive.

Since the start of the aggression, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 14,128 Palestinians, including 5,840 children and 3,920 women, and injured more than 33,000 others.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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