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[–] 192 points 3 years ago (4 children)

"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.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The jokes people made on Twitter saying "I'm probably gonna be put on a list for retweeting this/liking this" was actual reality on FB?!

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    It's reality on Twitter too. Their are whole industries tracking people and their ideologies and tying that to their identities. You just haven't pissed off the right group yet so you haven't found out which list you're on

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  • [–] 169 points 3 years ago (67 children)

    Equating Israel to Judaism is such a stupid fucking idea.

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  • [–] 81 points 3 years ago (62 children)

    I'm really, really tired of immediately denouncing Israel half the time people find out I'm Jewish. I'm not a fucking Israeli.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (60 children)

    The Israeli government is really happy to rope you and all other Jewish people outside of Israel along though. And too many unfortunately play that role happily.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (59 children)

    And too many unfortunately play that role happily.

    See? This is what I mean. If I just announced that I was Jewish to someone like you, you'd make me justify it by denouncing Israel. I shouldn't have to do that. It should not be assumed that just because I'm a Jew, I support Israel. Frankly, that's a form of racism.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (27 children)

    They're saying you should blame Israel for that, not random people trying to find out who's who

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (26 children)

    Why not blame both? Why should they be trying to find out who's who. If you found out someone was Turkish, would you immediately ask them if they supported Erdogan? If someone was Hungarian, would you try to find out if they supported Orban?

    I don't know if you're an American, but how would you like it if, every time you met a non-American, you would have to announce that you don't support Trump because they're trying to "find out who's who?"

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    how would you like it if, every time you met a non-American, you would have to announce that you don’t support Trump because they’re trying to “find out who’s who?”

    This is already the case.

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    [–] 167 points 3 years ago (41 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    And not all Jewish people support Israel! I have to assume many understand what's going on and side with Palestine.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    What does "side with Palestine" mean? I side with the innocent people unjustly targeted in both Israel and Palestine, Israel has tolerated completely unjust treatment of Palestinians as well as done it as a state. But, groups like HAMAS also fire missiles at innocent civilians. Not to mention the many nations that have tried to unprovoked invade Israel. I'm not saying the Israeli government is innocent, it's not, but it's more complicated than just "siding with Palestine" being the right answer.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    He's and asshole regardless of his lineage, not because of it. Just so you know someone else out here has a little grounding in reality.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Thanks, though unfortunately it's not people like yourself (who understand such things) that worry me.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    i still wait for the day when i can criticize the state of israel and some of it's policies without getting branded as an antisemite.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Well, not so much a conspiracy, but Israel is employing social media propaganda, similiar to the infamous russian "troll factories". It was often very well noticeable on reddit, as sometimes two different accounts posted the exact same comment with pro Israeli talking points. Their main target is facebook and other large plattforms though.

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    [–] 39 points 3 years ago

    Meta are acting as an international agency curtailing journal8sm as it suits them. Using Meta "logic", they'd need to do the same for the Ukranian reporters, which we also would never condone.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Can people actually criticise Israel and get away with it? Hasn't been the case for the past decade or even more. This is hardly news.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’ve found that you definitely can outside of the US. Growing up in Australia I was always taught the ‘both sides’ argument regarding Israel/Palestine, and I’ve literally never met a person who didn’t support a two-state solution. A Jewish family I grew up with were notoriously anti-Israel, specifically because Israel has given them bad names by committing atrocities in response to other atrocities. You might find a few right wing nutjobs that refuse to allow criticism of Israel, but generally they’re the ones that are ostracised by the majority.

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