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SMEX • 16 Jul 2024

Digital Safety Helpdesk Statistics: Rising Electronic Repression in the Region

In May, SMEX’s Digital Safety Helpdesk addressed 133 digital threats spanning account suspensions, cyber violence, sexual blackmail, content moderation, and…

  • Content Moderation
  • Cyberviolence
  • Digital Safety Helpdesk
Zeinab Ismail • 23 Feb 2024

Meta Contemplates Banning the Use of the Term “Zionist”

Laying the Ground for Further Repression of Palestine’s Supporters 73 civil society organizations, including SMEX, have urged Meta to reverse…

  • Content Moderation
  • Digital Authoritarianism
  • DOI list
Dionysia Peppa • 27 Oct 2023

From Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza: Meta continues to systematically censor the Palestinian narrative

On October 13, Meta released a statement outlining a series of measures introduced by the company to moderate harmful content…

  • Content Moderation
  • Meta
  • Palestine
SMEX • 27 Sep 2022

Statement Regarding BSR’s HRA for Meta on Palestine & Israel

  • BSR
  • Content Moderation
  • Facebook
SMEX • 22 Sep 2022

Meta censored Palestinians last May – independent audit report confirms

  • Censorship
  • Content Moderation
  • Meta
SMEX • 24 Sep 2021

The Oversight Board’s decision on Palestine is a step in the right direction, now Facebook needs to step up

We, the undersigned organizations, welcome the recent decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on Facebook’s unjustified removal of news content related…

  • Content Moderation
  • Content Removal
  • Facebook
Abed Kataya • 21 Sep 2021

Facebook’s Moderation ‘Mistakes’ Silence Palestinian Voices

On September 14, Facebook’s Oversight Board issued a decision to restore a post originally published by Al-Jazeera’s Facebook page, featuring…

  • Al Jazeera
  • bias
  • Content Moderation
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