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Company records reviewed by The Intercept show Israel urged Facebook and Instagram to take down posts supportive of Iran. The post Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show appeared first on The Intercept.

An investigation by The New Humanitarian found Google and Meta running thousands of advertisements for Israeli West Bank settlement businesses, including EU-targeted ads by settlement construction firm Comasco reaching 2,000–6,000 European accounts per ad, covering the period 2021–2026.

Meta removed coordinated disinformation networks linked to Israeli actors using fake social media accounts and AI-generated content to shape political discourse in Lebanon, as documented by SMEX in its April 2026 digital rights report.

The erasure of Saleh Aljafarawi’s account comes amid years of criticism that Meta routinely honours Israeli government takedown requests targeting Palestinian content.

A jury ordered NSO Group to pay Meta $168M in damages for illegally deploying Pegasus spyware by exploiting a WhatsApp vulnerability, in a landmark ruling against the Israeli spyware firm. The judge later reduced the amount.

Companies are selling homes in illegal settlements and individuals are fundraising to buy weapons for Israeli soldiers.

Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.

The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals.

Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.

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