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179 Violations Against Palestinian Digital Rights (English) 

7amleh
Incidents of digital violations against Palestinians have persisted, primarily stemming from actions emanating from social media companies. Throughout the month of July, 7amleh meticulously documented a total of 179 violations. These encompassed 44 instances of censorship, 134 cases involving the dissemination of violent and harmful content and behaviors within the digital realm, and one case of restrictions or bans on digital economic platforms.

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How social media sites failed to avoid censorship, curb hate speech and disinformation during Gaza war (English) 

Arab News 

Tech giant Meta recently announced it would start removing social media posts that use the term “Zionist” in contexts where it refers to Jewish people and Israelis rather than representing supporters of the political movement, in an effort to curb antisemitism on its platforms. Facebook and Instagram’s parent company previously OPINION - Meta's censorship: Freedom is a 2-way roadsaid it would lift its blanket ban on the single most moderated term across all of Meta’s platforms — “shaheed,” or “martyr” in English — after a year-long review by its oversight board found the approach was “overbroad.”

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OPINION - Meta's censorship: Freedom is a 2-way road (English) 

Anadolu agency 

Since last Oct. 7, Instagram, a Meta-owned platform, has been systematically flagging and removing posts supporting Palestine, citing violations of community guidelines or simply labeling them as spam. This blatant bias was evident from the onset of the conflict. A December 2023 report by Human Rights Watch shed light on the troubling algorithmic selectivity of Instagram and Facebook, raising serious concerns about freedom of expression in the context of the war in Gaza. The report laid bare the pervasive algorithmic censorship affecting the sharing, liking, and commenting on pro-Palestinian content. Moreover, prominent social media and digital human rights activist Shaun King, with nearly 6 million followers, saw his Instagram account shut down after his posts about Gaza.

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‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war (English) 

+972 Magazine

On July 10, the commander of the Israeli army’s Center of Computing and Information Systems unit — which provides data processing for the whole military — spoke at a conference titled “IT for IDF” in Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv. In her address to an audience of about 100 military and industrial personnel, of which +972 Magazine and Local Call obtained a recording, Col. Racheli Dembinsky confirmed publicly for the first time that the Israeli army is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by civilian tech giants in its ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip. In Dembinsky’s lecture slides, the logos of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure appeared twice.