EXPLAINER: What Did Al Jazeera Arabic Investigation Reveal about Facebook Censorship of Palestine

EXPLAINER: What Did Al Jazeera Arabic Investigation Reveal about Facebook Censorship of Palestine

Al Jazeera Arabic popular investigative program ‘What is Hidden is Greater’, exposed the troubling relationship between the social media giant, Facebook, and the Israeli government.  The program aired on Friday, September 8, under the title ‘Closed Space’. Its main premise was predicated on the establishment of two separate accounts: one in Arabic and the other in Hebrew.  Facebook responded to both accounts in entirely different ways. More on …