Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

I know I'm naive: I don't understand why US companies are so sensitive to respecting Israel. I don't know why our gov is so sensitive to this either. Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no? This can't purely be about respecting the billions spent on US weapons to defend Israel, right? I genuinely do not understand, because I think they'd happily buy from the military anyway.

Moderation really varies a lot depending both on the language and the group being criticized.<p>For example on twitch, Spanish streamers[1] say a lot of things that would get an English streamer canceled and&#x2F;or banned for saying it. And for other languages I&#x27;m sure the gap is even bigger.<p>The same with the group being criticized. Criticism against Russians is not moderated the same way as criticism against Jewish people.<p>To be clear I&#x27;m not in favor of hate speech, I&#x27;m just pointing out that moderation isn&#x27;t 100% equal.<p>[1] I mean the language of the stream, not the nationality of the streamer

So the journalist makes a documentary about how Facebook censors people, and a day later he gets censored, I think that just makes his documentary stronger!<p>Also, when the internet will ever learn, if you try to censor something you will just give it more exposure, I personally would never know about this documentary but now I will watch it.

And now the Streisand effect will come into play. Where can I find this documentary with English subtitles

Not that it justifies the deletion, I wonder how a state sponsored propaganda outlet came to be regarded well among global audiences. It would be interesting to read up on what they have done to garner that image.

I&#x27;m leaning towards the scenario where an organized group mass reported his profile after the show aired and Meta&#x27;s Lord Algorithm nuked the page.<p>I&#x27;m also willing to bet that when it gets manually reviewed it will be reinstated.

This makes me think that the reason I was thrown out of Facebook is because I followed some Palestinian pages there. Not because I necessarily a supporter of the whole &quot;Palestinian cause&quot;, because I think the whole thing is honestly a mess perpetrated by forces with ulterior motives on both sides. But I like to keep informed.<p>I never got an explanation from fb at the time, but now when I try to log in it states a reason: I have broken community rules regarding &quot;dangerous people and organizations&quot;. Which is really a laughable accusation regarding me, a convinced pacifist since 50 years back. But I&#x27;m honestly concerned that this might have further implications for me. Who else gets to know that I&#x27;m considered associated with &quot;dangerous persons or organizations&quot;?<p>Anyway, we are as a society still grappling for how to deal with the sudden and immense power over public opinion generation as well peoples most private lives that social media companies have acquired lately. I don&#x27;t have a complete solution, but this is untenable.

I&#x27;m not defending the deletion, but couldn&#x27;t the acts on the show have violated TOS in a variety of ways? Creating fake pages and conducting any kind of experiment secretly probably violate the terms in some kind of way.<p>Still wrong to target the host, but I could see how they could justify it.

I used to be a supporter of Israel, but our support of Israel causes way too many problems, both foreign and domestic, and I think it&#x27;s time for America to separate from Israel permanently.

Classic Meta.

X&#x27;s spat with the ADL revealed how substantial their lobby power is. That ad revenue plunged 60% due to their prejudices (against Elon and his management) testifies to a strong hold they have on media of all types. I don&#x27;t trust Meta to reverse their behaviors like this, which they have likely done many, many times.