Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/05/14/facebook-israel-zionist-moderation
Obtained by The Intercept, the policies alarmed advocates, who said Facebook is silencing political speech. Facebook’s secret internal rules for moderating the term “Zionist” let the social network suppress criticism of Israel amid an ongoing wave of Israeli abuses and violence, according to people who reviewed the policies. The rules appear to have been in place since 2019, seeming to contradict a claim by the company in March that no decision had been made on whether to treat the term (...)
