Tag: Facebook
Tell Facebook: Stop Silencing Palestine
Access Now and our partners have received hundreds of reports that social platforms — most notably Facebook and Instagram — are suppressing Palestinian protest hashtags, blocking livestreams, and removing posts and accounts. This has to stop. Now.
Global civil society coalition calls on Facebook to #StopSilencingPalestine
Access Now has joined 16 organizations and more than 50 artists, journalists, and human rights defenders to launch the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign to demand an end to Facebook’s censorship of Palestinian voices.
Facebook Oversight Board: No place for Trump’s hate and disinformation on its platforms
The Facebook Oversight Board today upheld the “deplatforming” of Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram, finding Facebook’s decision to be necessary and proportionate. Access Now welcomes this decision.
Israel, social media groups cooperating against Palestinians: NGO
Inside Facebook’s Meeting with Palestinian Officials Over Posts Inaccurately Flagged as Incitement to Violence
India: Instagram’s censorship of COVID-19 posts jeopardises free speech
India is experiencing a severe public health crisis. Instagram has been a crucial channel for people to communicate about important pandemic-related issues.
Facebook’s secret rules about the word “Zionist” impede criticism of Israel
Sheikh Jarrah: Facebook and Twitter systematically silencing protests, deleting evidence
Facebook and Twitter are systematically silencing users protesting and documenting the evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem.
Regulating online platforms: how EU Member States are undermining the Digital Services Act
The European Union’s Digital Services Act is no mean feat, but it is striking that EU Member States establishing their own national solutions would prove to be the biggest obstacle.
