2024-08-04 04:45:38
Many users have complained about the way Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has dealt with their posts on their personal pages, and blocked content that includes photos and comments related to the obituary of the head of Hamas’s political bureau, or discussing his career with the movement.
Instagram also deleted a post that included a meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Haniyeh, in mid-May of this year.
As a result, the Malaysian government office issued a statement that included sharp criticism of Meta, considering “this action an indication of discrimination against Palestine, and we await an explanation and apology from Meta.”
Turkey’s Information and Communications Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet in Turkey, also blocked access to the social media application Instagram early yesterday, in response to the removal of millions of posts by Turkish users who reacted to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Fahrettin Altun, the presidential communications director and an aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had earlier strongly criticized the Meta-owned platform for preventing users in Turkey from posting messages of condolence for Haniyeh.
There was no immediate comment from Instagram, which has at least 50 million users in Turkey, a country of 85 million people.
In a related context, the Russian Foreign Ministry accused YouTube on Friday of censoring content and blocking access to information at the request of the United States, warning that it sees sufficient grounds to take action against the video hosting site.
Russia has criticized Google, which owns YouTube, in recent years for shutting down channels of Russian media and public figures and failing to remove content Moscow deems illegal or objectionable.
“We see many important reasons for taking action against the video hosting site YouTube,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
“The numerous systematic violations of Russian law and the clear disregard for the domestic public and its interests leave our state’s regulatory bodies with the right to use appropriate legal tools,” she added.
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