Big Brother is Watching All of Us

> Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency Safa's Account Hosting 1.3 Million
> Followers
> By teleSUR
> 27 March 18
>
> According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of
> Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.
>
> Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as part
> of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts considered
> "inciteful." The agency is allegedly affiliated to the Palestinian
> political
> party Hamas; a claim Safa denies.
>
> Safa's account was disabled along with the accounts of 10 of its editors
> Saturday, after 5 p.m local time. The agency's social media manager, who is
> keeping his identity secret, told the Jerusalem Post "We were totally
> surprised." The news agency didn't receive a warning or an explanation.
>
> "We are now working to restore the account because 60 percent of the
> website's traffic comes through Facebook," the social media manager said. A
> reminder of Facebook's growing power in limiting or facilitating access to
> information.
>
> After the page was deleted, journalists rallied Saturday outside Safa's
> headquarters in Gaza to reject Facebook 's move, arguing the news agency
> had
> garnered 1.3 million followers who rely on it for news information.
>
> The agency responded to the measure by urging Facebook to fulfill their
> stated goal "to allow people to express their standpoints so that the world
> is more open and pluralistic."
>
> Activists have launched a campaign titled "Facebook is fighting Palestine,"
> which is calling for a boycott of the social media company. According to
> them, Facebook has proven their bias because while they delete and block
> Palestinian Facebook accounts, citing incitement, they have failed to do
> the
> same to Israeli accounts that openly call for violence and produce
> derogatory and discriminatory content against Palestinians.
>
> According to a Palestinian activist quoted by Israeli newspaper Haaretz,
> since the beginning of 2018 roughly 500 Facebook pages of Palestinian
> activists, journalists and bloggers who cover the news in the occupied
> territories have been shut down by the social media company.
>
> Clearly violent and inciteful comments on the social media website have in
> fact come from Israeli officials themselves and an action against them has
> yet to be taken by the company.
>
> Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has praised Facebook on its
> censorship policies when it comes to incitement despite the fact that she
> has been shown to carry out the same practice herself.
>
> "They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their
> heads.
> Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell
> with flowers and kisses," Shaked once wrote on her Facebook account.
>
> "They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go,
> as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise,
> more little snakes will be raised there."
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