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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

www.theguardian.com

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Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

www.theguardian.com

NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
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  • Bipta@kbin.socialBanned
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    This certainly increases my support for defederating Threads.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      Not to be rude, but how was it not already at max? I feel like there’s some kind of shared amnesia around here, as if Meta hasn’t proven to the world hundreds of times over how terrible they are. It is genuinely baffling to see so many people act like they aren’t a tumor on the internet and the world in general.

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        For the unaware:

        Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya

        “In 2017, the Rohingya were killed, tortured, raped, and displaced in the thousands as part of the Myanmar security forces’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. In the months and years leading up to the atrocities, Facebook’s algorithms were intensifying a storm of hatred against the Rohingya which contributed to real-world violence,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

        https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

        This is in the context of:

        The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted of two phases[2][3] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017.[4] The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    Fuck Israel.

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      Fuck terrorists (either side)

      • ليتني كوري شمالي @lemmy.ml
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        A lot of people are unaware but most of the world doesn’t consider Hamas as terrorists, only a fringe minority of nations and they are:

        • Australia
        • Canada
        • European Union
        • Israel
        • Paraguay
        • United Kingdom
        • United States
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          Regardless of whether Hamas is a terrorist organization or not, what Israel does with the population of Palestine is unacceptable and pure terrorism, it can also be called genocide.

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          Cute how you don’t list the countries in the EU. I suppose your list would look kinda stupid with another 27 entries representing the majority of the developed world. Props though, you likely mislead some really dumb people.

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            Which is still less than 15% of the world population and its current wealth and prosperity came after centuries of imperialism and colonialism. It is only natural they will oppose an indigenous resistance movement. The US and Israel considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist and supported apartheid in South Africa, not a good track record.

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              I suspect the rest just don’t care to have position. Or are you criticizing them?

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                The enemies of the west aren’t necessarily our enemies. To paraphrase Nelson Mandela here: https://youtube.com/shorts/g7_W7vZXkLg

                The West and the US specially has a history of getting it wrong: “The U.S. Government Had Nelson Mandela on Terrorist Watch Lists Until 2008. Here’s Why” https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/

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                  Terrorist are enemies of everyone. Gaza would be in MUCH better situation if it were not for Hamas.

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        Removed by mod

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        deleted by creator

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    Remember when Facebook unethically ran experiments to see if they could make people sad? We should have hanged the board of directors then.

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      I somehow hadn’t heard about that. Though I’m also not surprised.

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      I read this article when it was written in 2014, and it was the thing that made me delete my account. I was completely disgusted. I remember telling a friend about it the same day I read it, and they didn’t believe me, thought I was peddling a conspiracy theory, to the point that I had to find the article again to be sure I hadn’t imagined it. As far as I know, there were no consequences and no one was held accountable.

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    I wish facebook a very go out of business forever and for its execs a very long jail

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    Besides Instagram and maybe Whatsapp, what services does Facebook(Meta) provide that are gonna survive the boomer extinction?

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      Llama?

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        The language model? It’s open source and more catered towards developers than consumers, but yes it’s here to stay along with react and other developer tools.

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          I mean even if it doesn’t it’s not like something new won’t crop up in its place. That goes for literally everything Facebook provides.

          They’re not irreplaceable. No company is.

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    This has been going on long before Oct 7:

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/panel-discussion-israel-intelligence-facebook-google-censorship-palestinian-voices/277302/

    https://theintercept.com/2021/05/14/facebook-israel-zionist-moderation/

    https://www.mintpressnews.com/facebook-jordana-cutler-israel-ministry-sparking-censorship-fear/283445/

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    I created an instagram account two weeks ago. Everything was fine until I liked a pro-Palestine comment. Suddenly my account was suspended. No other possible reason, and this has happened to multiple people. The government and tech are trying to control social media and the populace. All these changes to twitter (I won’t ever call it “X”), reddit - this is all intentional, ahead of the US election. Soon, they’ll be requiring personal I.D. to use any social media - you will not be allowed any privacy or anonymity online.

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      Palestine bad, homie

      careful what you post/like

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    I still see a fuck tonne of them, and annoyingly, a bunch which conflate Israel and Ukraine. So I guess pro-Palestinian Russian propaganda is allowed through just fine.

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