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From The Intercept, "Meta's Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts": A former senior Israeli government official now working as Meta's Israel policy chief personally pushed for the censorship of Instagram accounts belonging to Students for Justice in Palestine -- a group that has played a leading role in organizing campus protests against Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.Meta banned the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine from Instagram in August. [...] Meta did not respond to a detailed list of questions about Cutler's flagging of posts but argued that writing an article about her was "dangerous and irresponsible." In a statement, spokesperson Dani Lever wrote "who flags a particular piece of content for review is irrelevant because our policies govern what is and isn't allowed on platform. In fact, the expectation of many teams at Meta, including Public Policy, is to escalate content that might violate our policies when they become aware of it, and they do so across regions and issue areas. Whenever any piece of content is flagged, a separate team of experts then reviews whether it violates our policies."Read their full report. As I highlighted in the clip above, Cutler spoke at PaleyImpact's 2023 conference on "Fighting Antisemitism Through Tech" and boasted about using her position as "Jewish Diaspora" chief to censor "hate speech" that "makes Jewish people feel unsafe." "One of the privileges I have in my role which I created very uniquely -- I don't think there's another person in a tech company with the title 'Jewish Diaspora' ... is to really sit with Jewish communities around the world and think about how can I empower what they're saying on a local level and figure out how we can, on a global platform, find answers to that," Cutler said. "And some of that is definitely working on those content issues that you mentioned earlier about removing content that is hate speech, or targeting Jews, or things that make Jewish people feel unsafe," she continued. "And we spend a lot of time working with partners around the world to make sure we're getting it right, whether having things like Holocaust denial and distortion not allowed on our platforms, having a very nuanced policy on not allowing even harmful stereotypes of saying 'Jews run the world' called out as hate speech, always looking at code words like you mentioned earlier," Cutler added. Cutler said she's really "proud" of their partnership with the World Jewish Congress and said that "any people on our platform that search for terms about the Holocaust or Holocaust denial are given a box that explains what the Holocaust was -- so we take that real estate opportunity right there on your phone to tell you what it was and we encourage you to leave Facebook and go to this website that has factual information." "There's things that we can do in terms of removing content but then also pushing good information to people and that's on the Facebook side of things and Instagram," she said. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, under lobbying from the World Jewish Congress, announced in July that claims of "Zionists" "running the world or controlling the media" will be banned as "hate speech" going forward. The move was celebrated by the WJC as "a much-needed advancement in our ongoing fight against online antisemitism and hatred" and they encouraged "all other platforms" to follow suit. ![]() In 2020, Zuckerberg also issued new speech codes for Facebook and Instagram to ban all Holocaust denial as well as all content which depicts "Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government." "The idea of banning content that promotes stereotypes of Jewish global control came up a year ago, in a meeting with several Jewish groups convened by Facebook, and was pushed primarily by the World Jewish Congress," The Jewish Daily Forward reported at the time.
Later that year, Zuckerberg overhauled Facebook's "race-blind" "hate speech" algorithms to allow more anti-White hatred. Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds and Telegram. |