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Twitter Running Scared as Users Express Outrage at Israeli Aggression Twitter censors criticism of Israel just as bombs start to fall

April 21, 2022 by Richard Silverstein

The increasing violence around the Al Aqsa Ramadan protests, along with Israeli attacks on Gaza, have escalated social media outrage against Israel’s policies.  In turn, social media platforms have become increasingly skittish about content that is deemed “controversial” (i.e. pro-Palestinian).  We saw this last year during the Gaza attacks when many social media platforms engaged […]

Reddit: Front Page of the Internet, Censors Its Back Pages As Reddit readies for $15-Billion IPO, Bad PR is bad for business

March 14, 2022 by Richard Silverstein

NOTE: The New Arab published an abridged version of this post this week. Read it here. What will the future look like with hundreds of millions of people only thinking Reddit-approved thoughts? Can we answer the call for a decentralized platform to exchange free ideas, judged on their own merit instead of by a central […]

Meta Announces Attacks on 50,000 Accounts Targeted by Israeli Surveillance-for-Hire Companies Facebook Warned My Account Had Been Attacked, Likely by One of the Israeli Companies

December 16, 2021 by Richard Silverstein

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced today that it had identified 50,000 Facebook accounts that had been attacked by at least seven companies engaged in spying-for-hire.   This is a Hebrew report for Israeli readers. Among the companies was the Israeli Black Cube, which was implicated in the Rose McGowan case against Harvey Weinstein.  […]

Taliban Social Media Accounts Banned After NY Times Inquired Why They Permitted Them

August 17, 2021 by Richard Silverstein

Yesterday, we sent Facebook, YT, and others accounts belonging to the Taliban spokesman. We asked for comment, and they responded by removing them. Today, the Taliban spokesman is complaining of censorship. Story coming soon on this… — Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) August 17, 2021 Earlier today, NY Times technology reporter, Sheera Frenkel, tweeted that she had […]

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