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Pro-Palestinian Instagram account locked by Meta for 'security reasons'

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35 pointspersonjerry11 comments

Hard to tell what's happening here without more context. There's no dearth of Pro-palestinian viewpoints being shared on Meta platforms - so 1 account being banned is likely just issues specific to that 1 account.

In the article it says Meta believes the account had been compromised and was working to communicate with the owners of the account. It doesn't say anything about individual posts being moderated.

Appropriate quote:

> Meta said: “These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to make sure they have access.”

Maybe someone wanted to take this account offline and flagged it as "hacked" a bunch of times to trip Facebook's review system. That's a classic.

Both Apple and Google disabled traffic information for the region not to give away IDF troop movements to the Palestinians. So there's that.

Since Ukraine, I've wondered how these companies will behave in wars with less clear right-and-wrong. Ukraine is as easy a case as one sees (though of course people on the Internet can debate it). Others are more complex.

Due to their ubiquity and power, whatever the companies do or don't do will affect people's lives, will result in oppression, death and destruction, capture and torture, for some.

A couple of interesting articles by international law, and law of armed conflict (LOAC) experts:

https://www.justsecurity.org/89463/digital-tech-companies-in...

https://www.justsecurity.org/89449/social-media-platform-int...

The way you just saddened me with this is indescribable.. as I've just deleted 4 paragraphs that could get me into a lot of trouble.

I wonder if it was formerly run from the Gaza Strip? If it was, there is no power and internet there any more. So they would have had to get others in other areas of the Palestinian territories or elsewhere to help run it.

This was apparently the most popular Palestine accounts on Instagram and they just all disappeared. I wasn't a follower, but it seemed like it was an effective activism outlet.

Killing it is an effective way of reducing the reach of Palestinian suffering into the West.

Here is an article about some of the people who run it:

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-the-internet-s-leading...

The org mentioned in here is called "7amleh." Haven't seen Arabeezi in a while and was wondering how you pronounce this. Apparently the 7 is a deep "H" sound.

Side note, I've been working on a transliteration tool for Arabeezi<->Arabic leveraging new NLP techniques (not LLMs to be clear) and it's working pretty great. Contact in my profile if this is something of interest to you.

In a few years everyone is going to have to pretend to have always been against this, claim that they couldn't tell what was going on.

There is too much Hamas propaganda in Instagram. It's shame such platforms became a home for offensive culture and fake news.

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