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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

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

Richard Silverstein April 21, 2022

The increasing violence around the Al Aqsa Ramadan protests, along with Israeli attacks on Gaza, have escalated...

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

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

Richard Silverstein March 14, 2022

NOTE: The New Arab published an abridged version of this post this week. Read it here. What...

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

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

Richard Silverstein December 16, 2021

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced today that it had identified 50,000 Facebook accounts that...

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

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

Richard Silverstein August 17, 2021

Yesterday, we sent Facebook, YT, and others accounts belonging to the Taliban spokesman. We asked for comment,...

Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Secretly Buys Media Coverage

Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Secretly Buys Media Coverage

Richard Silverstein December 20, 2019

Many of us know that Israel is a corrupt society and that the corruption stems in large...

Twitter Refuses to Bow to Israeli Censorship

Twitter Refuses to Bow to Israeli Censorship

Richard Silverstein August 28, 2019

טוויטר גילתה אומץ-לב, וסירבה לדרישה לצנזר את ציוציי על וולטר סוריאנו והניצחון המשפטי שלי עליו בישראל I...

The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State

The Selling of the Israeli Surveillance State

Richard Silverstein May 26, 2019

I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal...

Facebook Suspension for Criticizing Israeli Rabbinic Racism

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Facebook Suspension for Criticizing Israeli Rabbinic Racism

Richard Silverstein April 30, 2019

Yesterday, I published a post consisting of translations of verbatim video recordings of two senior Israeli settler...

BREAKING: IDF Names New Commander After Disastrous Gaza Operation, His Identity is Censored idf commandos in gaza

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BREAKING: IDF Names New Commander After Disastrous Gaza Operation, His Identity is Censored

Richard Silverstein April 28, 2019

חשיפה: המועמד לפקד על מערך המבצעים המיוחדים של אמ”ן (ולשקם אותו אחרי כשלון הפעולה בעזה) הוא תא”ל...

Twitter Outlaws “Yid” as “Hate Speech” twitter censorship

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Twitter Outlaws “Yid” as “Hate Speech”

Richard Silverstein March 20, 2019

Today is Censorship Day at my blog. Today, a group of pro-Israel Twitter trolls joined in reporting...

Tikun Olam Under Attack

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Tikun Olam Under Attack

Richard Silverstein January 3, 2019

APPEAL: In light of the attacks described below, I urge you to consider supporting the important work...

Facebook: People Last, Censors First

Facebook: People Last, Censors First

Richard Silverstein December 13, 2018

My recent bout of censorship at the hands of Facebook and Twitter has taught me (at least)...