Facebook rights violated of Palestinian Users: Report

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Meta and Facebook actions during the war in Gaza last year Rights violated of Palestinian users to freedom of Expression, political participation, assembly and non-discrimination, according to a report issued by a popular mandate social media Director.

Thursday report from the independent consulting firm Business for Social responsibility underlined long-term criticism of Meta policies and their unequal implementation in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He. She found company over-duty rules When it comes to Arabic content and a minor content in Hebrew.

However, it did not find intentional bias in Meta, either by the company as a whole or among individual employees. The authors of the report said that they found “No proof of Racial, ethnic, sexual or religious hostility in dominant teamsMeta noted that she has “staff representing different viewpoints, nationalities, races, ethnicities and religions related to this conflict.” “

Instead of that found many cases of Unintended bias that harmed rights of Palestinian and Arabic-speaking users.

In response, Mita said it plans to carry out some of The report’s recommendations, including improving its Hebrew-language “Workbooks” that help Automatically remove offending posts using Artificial intelligence.

“There is no fast, overnight fixes too much of These recommendations, BSR also offers clear”based company in Menlo Park, California in Blog post Thursday. “While we have made Important changes K result of this exercise alreadyThis process will take time – including time to understand how some of These recommendations can best and whether it is technically feasible.

dead, the report confirmed, also made gross errors in Mandatory. For example, as the Gaza war rages on last In May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #Al-Aqsa, in reference to Al-Aqsa Mosque in The Old City of Jerusalem, a bright spot in dispute.

Meta, which owns Instagram, later apologised, explaining that its algorithms got it wrong on the third-holiest site. in Islam for hardcore group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed branch of Fatah Secularism party.

The report echoed the issues raised in Internal documents from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen last Fall, which indicates that the company problems Systematic and known for a long time within the Meta.

a key Failure is imperfection of mediators in Languages ​​other than English, including Arabic – among the most common Languages on Meta platforms.

for users in Issues were raised in Gaza, Syria and other areas of the Middle East marred by conflict in report nothing new.

Israeli security services and observers, for For example, they monitored and bombed Facebook with in thousands of orders to take down Palestinian accounts and posts they are trying to hack down on agitation;

“that they flood Our King SystemAshraf Zeitoun, Facebook former head of policy for Middle East and North Africa region who left in 2017, The Associated Press (AP) last year. “This imposes system to make mistakes in favor of Israel.”

Israel suffered from severe convulsions of hnf in May 2021 – with weeks of tensions in East Jerusalem escalates into an 11-day war with Hamas activists in Gaza strip. Violence spread in Israel itself, with The country that suffers the worst sectarian violence between Jewish and Arab citizens in Years.

In an interview this week, Israel national Police chief Kobi Shabtai told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that he believed social media fueled sectarian fighting. he called for Close down social media If similar violence occurs again He suggested ban social media To cut down the flames last year.

“I’m talking about a complete shutdown down Networks calm the situation on On the ground, when the calm revitalizes them.” “We are a democracy, but there are limits.”

Comments caused There was an uproar and the police issued a clarification saying that his suggestion was only intended for extreme cases. Omar Bar-Lev, Cabinet minister who supervising the police, also He said Shabtai had no authority to impose such a ban.

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