Instagram’s double standards for Ukraine and Israel.
The Intercept reported that Instagram, which usually quickly deletes crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people, ordered its staff not to consider this policy for possible casualties of the Russian attack.
In a report, the “Intercept” website compared the policies of the “Meta” company (the owner of social networks Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp) regarding the war in Ukraine and the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza and revealed that this company allowed the officials to remove inappropriate content according to the usual rules of this Ignore participating in the removal of violent images if they are related to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The Intercept reported that earlier this month, after Israeli warplanes carried out several attacks on crowded areas of the Gaza Strip, Facebook and Instagram users complained that these social networks quickly deleted content documenting the amount of destruction and killing caused by these attacks.
The Intercept wrote: “This has become a pattern: Palestinians post disturbing images of Israeli attacks, and Meta immediately removes the content, citing only a violation of Community Standards as an explanation, and often an explanation. does not mention
However, apparently not all of the billions of people using meta platforms are breaking these rules if they post about a bomb going off in their neighborhood.
The Intercept wrote a document that was seen by this media, which shows that this year the company has repeatedly instructed its employees to ignore this procedure for the Russia-Ukraine war and to pass by it in cases where a disturbing photo of the Russia-Ukraine war is published. do
Meta, like many other American internet companies, has set its rules in such a way that the flow of information is in favor of the Ukrainian side in the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Intercept writes that the company has never adopted such a policy for Palestinian victims of Israeli violence.
“Muna Shatia”, the consultant of the “Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media” says about this action of the Meta company: “This is a deliberate censorship of human rights documents and the Palestinian narrative.”
