The US based news program, Democracy Now spoke with Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald about his new report for The Intercept headlined “Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments.”
Background
In September of last year, The Intercept reported that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.”
“The meetings — called for and presided over by one of the most extremist and authoritarian Israeli officials, pro-settlement Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked — came after Israel threatened Facebook that its failure to voluntarily comply with Israeli deletion orders would result in the enactment of laws requiring Facebook to do so, upon pain of being severely fined or even blocked in the country.
.@facebook follows orders from the Israeli government & censors the voices of Palestinian activists & human rights defenders who dare to use their platforms to protest the brutal, decades-long occupation of Palestine: https://t.co/rxZp8flMUU pic.twitter.com/efaNW2fvZg
— CODEPINK (@codepink) January 3, 2018
“The predictable results of those meetings are now clear and well-documented. Ever since, Facebook has been on a censorship rampage against Palestinian activists who protest the decades-long, illegal Israeli occupation, all directed and determined by Israeli officials. Indeed, Israeli officials have been publicly boasting about how obedient Facebook is when it comes to Israeli censorship orders.
“Shortly after news broke earlier this month of the agreement between the Israeli government and Facebook, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Tel Aviv had submitted 158 requests to the social media giant over the previous four months asking it to remove content it deemed “incitement.” She said Facebook had granted 95 percent of the requests.”
How #Israel Uses #Twitter, #Facebook & #Tinder to Legitimize Murder of Palestinians | Brainwash Update #Palestine #Gaza #Hasbarahttps://t.co/FuuHPVxXZM
— Sonia Mota (@SoniaKatiMota) December 26, 2017
(Intercept, Democracy Now, PC)
