Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism of US-Israeli Warmongering
MEDIA, 7 Oct 2024
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service
7 Oct 2024 – I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, placing strikes on my accounts in the process.
Both Facebook and Instagram have deleted screenshots of a post I made on Twitter (or whatever you call it now) which reads as follows:
Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners in crime who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror.
In the reasons given for this censorship, both Facebook and Instagram said “It looks like you shared symbols, praise or support of people and organizations we define as dangerous, or followed them.”
My appeals against this removal have been denied, saying the post “does not follow our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organisations.”
Hours later, Instagram removed a second post citing the same reasons, this one about Lebanon and Hezbollah. It was two screenshots from a longer Twitter post which reads as follows:
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Tags: Censorship, Facebook, Gaza, Genocide, Instagram, Israel, Metaverse, Palestine, Twitter, USA
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