Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19060045

Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context. Since October 7, social media platforms have been challenged for the unjustified takedowns of pro-Palestinian content—sometimes at the request of the Israeli government—and a simultaneous failure to remove hate speech towards Palestinians. More specifically, social media platforms have worked with the Israeli Cyber Unit—a government office set up to issue takedown requests to platforms