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Facebook Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Accounts

Facebook Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Accounts
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A new report from a Palestinian rights organization found that the number of incidents in which people - including many journalists - have been arrested for social media posts has drastically increased in the last year, leading to worries over an "Israeli" crackdown on the right to freedom of expression.

Facebook Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Accounts

"Social media sites are... an efficient window to empower journalists and Palestinians in general to express their opinions freely," Mousa Rimawi, author of the report and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms [Mada] said.

"[But] systematic surveillance and observation by "Israeli" Occupation Authorities [means they have become] an open platform for persecution and oppression relating to users' opinions."

While there is no legal precedent in "Israeli" law for charging people with criminal offenses related to online posts, the occupation entity, worried that inflammatory content online has fueled a spike in resistance operations in the last 12 months, created a cybercrime unit in October 2015 to monitor and control what is published on the internet.

In addition, the Zionist authorities are also pressuring social media companies to do more to remove posts which could incite "violence." A delegation from Facebook met with government officials in September for what were described as "successful" talks.

This week, the activist collective Palestinian Information Centre reported that at least 10 of their administrators' accounts for their Arabic and English Facebook pages - followed by more than two million people - have been suspended in the wake of Facebook's meeting with "Israel", seven of them permanently.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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