@LurkerJ Same question for the manipulation by Social media. Russia bad, Israel, oh it's just pro Israel voices that need to be protected. Meanwhile big tech helps by banning Pro Palestinian content and congress made criticism of Israel anti-semetic by law. Nvm all the manipulation of mainstream media and all the flat out lies Israel has been spreading. The white house still (pretends to) takes Israel at its word and repeats the propaganda verbatim.
The west in general has a big supremacist issue and Israel gets included in the group for looking similar to 'us'. I'm actually starting to feel more for my Indonesian roots and am glad my local town is getting a lot more diversity. Getting sick of old white men in power.
Israel secretly targeted US lawmakers with anti-Palestinian content
Israel’s government primarily targeted Black lawmakers and progressives with this content in order to sway public opinion on the war in Gaza, Haaretz newspaper reports, citing an investigation by the Fake Reporter organisation.
The daily said the operation, orchestrated by Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry and run by a political campaigning firm, involved fake accounts and sites that spread pro-Israel and Islamophobic content, as well as disinformation about anti-Semitism on US campuses.
Haaretz first reported about the existence of the operation in March but Fake Reporter published more details. Fake Reporter’s Executive Director Achiya Schatz told Haaretz that “running the foreign influence campaign against American lawmakers is amateurish, irresponsible and anti-democratic”.
Trump did the same with Camebridge Analytica but nobody wants to touch that hot potato, hush money trial will have to do.
Palestinian-American sues Meta, alleging speech discrimination on platform
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/tech/palestinian-american-sues-meta-instagram/index.html
A Palestinian-American engineer has sued the social media giant Meta, accusing his former employer of discriminating against pro-Palestinian speech on its platforms and of wrongfully firing him after he investigated the issue as part of his official duties.
The lawsuit by Ferras Hamad — a Meta engineer assigned to review Instagram content filters related to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine — claims Meta fired him because of his Palestinian background and for raising concerns about the company’s handling of a prominent Palestinian war photographer’s Instagram account.
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According to the complaint filed Tuesday in California state court in Santa Clara County, the photographer’s account, with more than 17 million followers, had been incorrectly labeled as pornographic.
When Hamad flagged the matter late last year to colleagues within the same team, he allegedly began to receive communications from Meta employees outside of the team pressuring him to drop the investigation.
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The firing took place against the backdrop of other examples of company bias against pro-Palestinian speech, Hamad alleges. Those examples include situations where Meta allegedly deleted employees’ internal posts mentioning deaths of relatives in Gaza; mentions of Palestinian refugees from an internal group dedicated to refugee support; and an internal letter from employees to Meta executives flagging concerns about Meta’s moderation of content related to Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs, according to the complaint.
