Social Media Users Accuse Facebook, Instagram of Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Posts

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMeta has cautioned that some content might be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.By Mike IsaacMike Isaac reports on social networks and Silicon Valley from San Francisco.Oct. 16, 2023Updated 5:49 p.m. ETThousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts have been suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram, even if the messages do not break the platforms’ rules.Meta, which owns the two social networks, said that some of those posts were hidden from view because of an accidental bug in the company’s systems. In particular, messages of support for Palestinian civilians, many of whom have been displaced, injured or killed by Israeli airstrikes, were being hidden from the platforms, users said. Some people have also reported that Facebook suppressed accounts that called for peaceful protests in cities around the United States, including planned sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend.Aya Omar, an artificial intelligence engineer, told The New York Times that she was unable to see Palestinian media accounts she regularly reads because Meta and Instagram were blocking those accounts. She said that people were seeing a sanitized version of the events occurring in Gaza.“Instagram and Facebook are
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