Meta is today's town square, and our first amendment rights are being violated. What entity shapes public narrative more than the social media apps that we all use everyday to learn, communicate, and organize?

Human rights and civil society organizations have been calling out Meta’s censorship of Palestine for many years:


Sign this petition (also linked in header):

  • Fight for the Future: Palestinians are being silenced on Instagram and Facebook through content removal, shadowbanning, and the deletion of accounts. Sign the petition demanding Meta stop censoring Palestine on its platforms.

Other petitions and reporting:

  • Stop Silencing Palestine: “We renew our call to Meta to stop its systemic censorship of Palestinian voices by overhauling its content moderation practices and policies that continue to restrict content about Palestine. Two years after our initial campaign, our demands remain unmet. Given the ongoing conflict, the urgency for Meta to address our—now updated—recommendations is greater than ever.”

  • Facebook We Need to Talk (2021): “We need to talk about the best ways to dismantle antisemitism and all the connected machinery of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia. We need to talk as Palestinians, with our friends and families and with rest of the world, sharing our experiences about daily life under military occupation and the violence of Zionist settlers. We need to talk as Jews, discussing and debating our many relationships to Zionist political ideology. We need to talk about holding the Israeli government accountable, like all governments must be held accountable, by bringing to light violations of human rights on the world’s biggest social media platform. Facebook, we need to talk.”

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation: Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestine

  • Access Now: #StopSilencingPalestine: Meta must overhaul its biased content moderation

  • Amnesty International: Social media companies must step up crisis response on Israel-Palestine as online hate and censorship proliferate

  • Access Now (2021): “Facebook and Twitter are systematically silencing users protesting and documenting the evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. We demand Facebook and Twitter to immediately stop these takedowns, reinstate affected content and accounts, and provide a clear and public explanation for why the content was removed.”

  • Human Rights watch (2021): Letter to Miranda Sissons, Director of Human Rights on Censorship of Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram with series of questions, that went relatively unanswered

  • 7amleh (2020): Deep dive into policies and practices of governments and companies on Palestinian digital rights

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