PODCAST: Inside Meta’s war on Palestinian content

A new report by 7amleh, the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement, analyzed over 3,500 cases of Meta restricting Palestinian content over five years, revealing systematic censorship. Nadim Nashif, executive director, discusses account suspensions, post deletions, and reach limitations, with life-or-death consequences in Gaza.

A new report by 7amleh, the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement, analyzed over 3,500 documented cases of Meta restricting Palestinian content over the past five years. The findings reveal a pattern of systematic censorship: posts deleted, accounts suspended, livestreams cut off, and reach quietly limited. Nadim Nashif, 7amleh's executive director, explains that the consequences, especially in Gaza, have been life or death, as Meta restricted accounts of journalists documenting Israel's war. The report gives this phenomenon a name, 'platformicide,' evoking physical erasure. Nashif argues that civil society must develop evidence-based methods to hold technology companies accountable.