2023-10-26 18:40:01
It is not a media war. We are witnessing a full-fledged transnational campaign of annihilation. If anyone was waiting for the arrival of the new military offensives, mysterious digital and media contests, only apparently bloodless, we will have to closely observe this hunt against the Palestinian people, where we are all involved, playing an important role in the combat without knowing who we are. is giving orders and what are the rules of engagement.
The censorship of the Palestinian reality in the general media, parliaments, political leaders, economic powers and reporters is drowning out the testimonies of the victims and the documentary evidence of the executioners in this genocide. It is killing many, literally. Blackouts and internet blockages hamper humanitarian work, prevent access to critical information that can help find medicine, food or safe passage, and deny the ability of Gazans to show the world what is happening on the ground.
But the campaign of annihilation goes far beyond the Strip. The practice of “I the Supreme” by global companies in the United States gives them carte blanche to continue doing and undoing as they please. They play cat and mouse with the billions of Internet users, without any reference to a national or international standard developed by States and their elected representatives.
While you read La Jornada, hundreds of contents are mysteriously disappearing from Facebook (now Meta), YouTube and Twitter (now X). Groups that monitor activity on social networks claim that censorship of Palestinian users is currently at a level that exceeds the content blocking of May 2021, when violence broke out following raids by Israeli police that cost the life to 200 Palestinians.
An independent report by the organization Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) found two years ago that the platform had overly moderated content in Arabic and undermoderated content in Hebrew. Meta attributed the abrupt removal of posts about Israeli military violence to a technical problem. On October 15, the platform’s spokesperson, Andy Stone, once again attributed the new accusations of savage censorship to a “bug” that affected Instagram users around the world.
If they corrected the “error”, the network has not found out. Thousands of users of the conditions of the besieged population. In a tragicomic twist, Elon Musk reiterated the check mark in
By contrast, the official Israeli narrative, excessively violent as it may be, is given free rein because Meta believes it comes from “official” entities, including the Israeli military and government officials.
Added to this cocktail is that, in the first days of the war, Meta translated the word “Palestinian” and the emoji of the Palestinian flag as “Palestinian terrorist.” She resolved the “problem” after a barrage of criticism on her platforms and once again used the excuse of “technical error.” “But it is not a mistake; It is a systemic problem. For years Meta has censored and misclassified Palestinian content,” Rasha Abdul-Rahim, director of Amnesty Technology, a branch of Amnesty International, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
It will be increasingly difficult to know why we see what we are taught and, above all, what we stop seeing, hopelessly trapped by the global web. And this is not a media war, I repeat, because there is no possible symmetry between the peoples chosen for extermination and the transnational power of the United States government – through censorship platforms – which right now fuels the genocidal arrogance of Israel and kills Palestine. .
Photo taken from Free Palestine
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