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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

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US President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, January 10, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ben Curtis)
January 11, 2025, 11:31 am
Biden slams ‘really shameful’ Meta plan to scrap US Facebook, Instagram fact-checking
President says move ‘completely contrary to everything America’s about’; UN rights chief: Allowing hate speech to flourish online has ‘real-world consequences’
By Anuj Chopra
Illustrative: Graffiti reading 'From the river to the sea' is seen on a building adjacent to an encampment protesting the University of Washington's ties to Israel and Boeing on the university's campus in Seattle, Washington, May 12, 2024. (Jason Redmond / AFP)
September 4, 2024, 10:15 pm
Oversight panel tells Meta not to automatically delete ‘From river to sea’ phrase
Committee says slogan, viewed by critics as an antisemitic call to eradicate Israel, has several meanings, stresses need for debate even in times of conflict
By Reuters
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 'Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,' in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)
August 27, 2024, 7:10 pm
Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure to take down COVID-19 posts was ‘wrong’
In letter seen by Republicans as a win, Facebook founder says US government pressured his company to ‘censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’
By AFP
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 10, 2024, 5:44 am
Meta says it will remove a wider swath of hate speech posts targeting ‘Zionists’
Under new policy, social media giant to take down Facebook and Instagram posts in which term is used as cover to push ‘antisemitic stereotypes, or threaten other types of harm’
By JTA and Jacob Magid
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
July 2, 2024, 10:26 pm
Meta to end ‘overbroad’ ban on Arabic word ‘shaheed’ on Facebook, Instagram
Oversight board finds prohibition on the term for ‘martyr,’ sometimes used to honor terrorists, has failed to account for a broad range of meanings
By Reuters
The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, October 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
June 5, 2024, 5:04 pm
Diaspora Ministry funded fake social media posts to spread pro-Israel content — NYT
Paper says influence campaign, which reportedly targeted Black US lawmakers, was commissioned by Israeli government, didn’t have widespread impact; ministry denies involvement
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators gather during a protest decrying sexual violence against women in the October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
June 2, 2024, 4:35 pm
Online watchdog prods platforms to tackle posts denying sexual assault on Oct. 7
Antisemitism monitor CyberWell says social media moderators are not doing enough to remove content that casts doubt on credible accounts of rape and other Hamas atrocities
By Sharon Wrobel
Anti-Israel protesters rally in Edmonton, Canada, February, 25, 2024, (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images, via JTA)
May 22, 2024, 6:46 am
Meta Oversight Board to decide whether users can post ‘all Israelis are criminals’
Independent body for Facebook, Instagram and Threads asks for public input as it reviews recent posts accused of using hate speech against whole nationalities
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim speaks at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha on May 14, 2024. (Karim JAAFAR / AFP)
May 16, 2024, 8:33 am
Meta restores Facebook posts on Malaysian PM Anwar’s meeting with Hamas’s Haniyeh
Tech giant says the social media posts were removed in error; Malaysian leader met Palestinian terror group chief in Qatar
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian elementary student holds a placard reading 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' in Beirut, Lebanon, December 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
May 7, 2024, 10:24 pm
Meta reviewing whether ‘From the river to the sea’ is acceptable speech
Social media giant’s Oversight Board asks for more in-depth research on the phrase after three reported posts using it were not taken down
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, October 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
March 5, 2024, 10:00 pm
Facebook, Instagram suffer over-2-hour outage
Users locked out of accounts and feeds, Threads fails to refresh
By Agencies
Guy Rolnik interviewing a social media executive speaking on condition of anonymity for a scene in the "Rolnik Report." (Kan)
February 12, 2024, 1:56 am
Delete your account: How social media may be metastasizing terror in service of Hamas
Influential economic columnist Guy Rolnik says hatred of Israel and Jews is being spread online to an unfathomable degree, creating an algorithmically sustained shadow October 7
By Amir Ben-David
The Meta (formerly Facebook) logo marks the entrance of corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on November 9, 2022. (Josh Edelson/AFP)
February 10, 2024, 6:44 am
Meta reviewing when ‘Zionist’ should be deemed hate speech, amid Israel-Hamas war
Social media firm says though term ‘often refers to a person’s ideology, which is not a protected characteristic, it can also be used to refer to Jewish or Israeli people’
By AFP
This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him sitting on stage during a meeting with Iranian air force commanders in Tehran on February 5, 2024, with a local Kaman-12 drone displayed behind him. (khamenei.ir/AFP)
February 9, 2024, 1:20 am
After he hailed Oct. 7 onslaught, Iran leader’s Facebook, Instagram accounts removed
Social media giant Meta says Ayatollah Khamenei repeatedly flouted ‘our dangerous organizations and individuals policy’; Twitter/X accounts still active
By AFP and ToI Staff
Protesters hold placards and Israeli flags outside the headquarters of the BBC in London on October 16, 2023, to appeal to the corporation to call Hamas 'terrorists.' (Daniel Leal / AFP)
February 2, 2024, 10:40 am
Senior BBC employee accused of repeated antisemitic posts, Holocaust denial
Broadcaster does not respond to specific allegations regarding BBC schedule coordinator Dawn Queva, but says it takes antisemitism ‘very seriously’
By ToI Staff
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