“Meta faces lawsuit after “unlawful” termination of Palestinian-American software engineer”

Meta is facing lawsuits on the grounds of unlawful termination after a former engineer, Ferras Hamad, accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and discrimination in his dismissal. Hamad claims Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs that suppressed Palestinian posts on its social media platforms, notably Instagram.

This marks a continuation of accusations that Meta is suppressing content critical of Israeli actions in Palestinian territory. As discussed by impACT in November 2023, amid mounting criticisms and evidence of censorship on their platforms during Israel’s ongoing assault on Palestinians in Gaza, particularly Instagram, an independent report from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) in 2022, revealed the “over-enforcement” of Terms of Service for content related to the Occupation of Palestine…

Giants like Google, have also come under scrutiny this year after accusations of unlawful termination based on employees political views…

…A Google spokesperson told Middle East Eye that the employee was terminated for "interfering with an official company-sponsored event".

Ferras Hamad, a Palestinian-American engineer who has been working on Meta’s machine learning since 2021, sued Meta in California for discrimination, wrongful termination, and other wrongdoing…