DONATE: As many of you know, I support my blogging as a freelance journalist writing for publications like Middle East Eye, The Nation, Al Jazeera and Jacobin Magazine. It's a precarious business since you are at the mercy of editors who you hope understand the importance of your work, but who sometimes don't. You may pitch a story you believe is … [Read more...]
Netanyahu’s Weaponization of Facebook in Israeli Election Offers Roadmap for Trump 2020
Marc Zuckerberg delivered a shockingly tone-deaf Georgetown speech in which he doubled down on Facebooks's refusal to police false political ad content. He argued that political advertising should be an absolute free speech zone on his platform. His users would, he maintained, be able to judge themselves on the veracity of such ads. He refused to place … [Read more...]
Twitter Refuses to Bow to Israeli Censorship
טוויטר גילתה אומץ-לב, וסירבה לדרישה לצנזר את ציוציי על וולטר סוריאנו והניצחון המשפטי שלי עליו בישראל I received two emails from Twitter today notifying me that an unnamed "third-party" demanded that it censor a total of 18 of my tweets. The thread common to them all is that all the tweets promoted a blog post I wrote about Walter Soriano and offered … [Read more...]
Facebook Suspends Me, Calling Criticism of Israeli Settler “Hate Speech”
Yesterday, I was using Facebook when a message popped on my screen saying that a post I'd published on the platform had been found to be "hate speech." My account was suspended for seven days. I would have no access to publishing content or comments during that time. The post consisted of a link to an Al Monitor article about a Palestinian family which had … [Read more...]
