Law firm Bindmans files a lawsuit against Facebook over allegations of mass account suspensions and censorship of Palestinian voices; co. did not respond
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보고된 날짜: 2022년 2월 22일
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"UK lawyers file a complaint against Facebook over anti-Palestinian bias" 22 February 2022
A London-based legal and justice center has filed a formal complaint to Facebook, accusing the social media platform of arbitrarily censoring and suspending accounts affiliated with Palestinian news agencies, advocates, and journalists.
The complaint, delivered by...Bindmans LLP on behalf of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and digital rights group Sada Social, requests...Meta...[to] issue an urgent review of its actions and explain why it censored those accounts...
Since the start of 2021, Sada Social has documented more than 600 cases of Palestinian censorship on Facebook and Instagram. The non-profit says that journalists and media accounts were the targets of more than 200 of those cases...
The company responded that it had not received "a valid legal request" from a government authority in the case of one particular post that the board's report focused on. The company "declined to provide the remaining information requested by the board"...
Middle East Eye reached out to Meta for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.