A new report has revealed that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, enforces unjust policies against Palestinian content, deleting posts or restricting visibility under claims of policy violations while turning a blind eye to hate speech and incitement against Palestinians, Al Jazeera reports.

The report published by 7amleh — The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media — includes testimonies from Palestinian influencers, journalists and media outlets who have faced Meta’s discriminatory practices.

It exposes Meta’s “silencing Palestinian content and suppressing the Palestinian narrative, particularly during the ongoing genocide in Gaza”, the report’s authors say.

More than 15 million inciting posts in Hebrew against Palestinians were documented across social media platforms since October 2023, as recorded by 7amleh’s AI-powered language model.=

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