‘Significant censorship’ of Palestine on social media sparks outcry
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Users and activists say the world’s largest social media platforms are censoring content about Palestine.
    • sfgifz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      2 years ago

      These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to ensure they have access

      Why not make it read-only until they make contact with the owners. Seems like an awfully convinient excuse otherwise.

      • steventhedev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 years ago

        Facebook are pretty upfront about the reasons for taking down accounts. It’s possible before they were detected they managed to upload some stuff that would get the account banned right away.

          • steventhedev@lemmy.worldEnglish
            110·
            2 years ago

            X (formerly known as Twitter) is a different company than Facebook. They have different policies.

            Facebook tend to be upfront about the reasons they removed an account. And they’ll ignore any and all evidence to the contrary after they’ve made that decision. There was a guy who hit the HN frontpage this week because he can’t advertise his online courses on Python and Pandas. Apparently they thought he was trying to sell live animals instead of teaching people how to do data science.

            Twitter just does whatever Musk wants this week.