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SMEX • 27 Sep 2022

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

  • BSR
  • Content Moderation
  • Facebook
Mubarak al Yosofy • 20 Sep 2021

Yemen: The Race for Censorship

As the war in Yemen rages on, and while the country is witnessing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis according to…

  • content censorship
  • Instagram
  • Internet Shutdown
SMEX • 11 May 2021

Petition to #SavePalestinianVoices: Tech Companies Must Stop Silencing Palestinian Content

We demand Facebook and Twitter to immediately stop censoring Palestinian content, reinstate affected posts and accounts, and provide a clear and public explanation for the reasons why the content was removed.

  • al-Aqsa
  • Facebook
  • Freedom Of Expression
SMEX • 07 May 2021

Sheikh Jarrah: Facebook and Twitter systematically silencing protests, deleting evidence

Facebook and Twitter are systematically silencing users protesting and documenting the evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the…

  • Content Moderation
  • Content Removal
  • Facebook
Waleed Ahmed • 11 Jan 2021

A New (Non-)Privacy Policy from WhatsApp? [A comparison between messaging applications]

Tech and media companies are exploiting free, popular apps to increase their access to  personal data; and WhatsApp has just…

  • Apps security
  • Digital Rights
  • Digital Rights