Cyber & Internet

Social media giant says it will work with experts to decide when the public safety risk has subsided, thus allowing the former US president's account to be restored.

By going after a foreign company hosting a website abroad, the Hong Kong police request underlines fears about the lengths to which Chinese authorities are going to squelch dissent with the national security law.

In 2007 blog post titled "If I Were a Jew," Kamau Bobb, then a research associate at Georgia Tech, argued Jews, whom he said should be "tormented" by Israel's actions in Lebanon and Gaza, are "insensitive to others."

The platform has been accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content during the latest Israel-Gaza conflict. The Facebook-owned company stressed revision has to do with the company realized the current algorithm "led people to believe it was suppressing certain points of view or topics. That is not the case."

Over a dozen Israeli papers, websites, and TV and radio stations complain that journalists have become targets for incitement, putting them in "clear and present danger."

Some 250 employees say tech giant must state its support for the Palestinians amid "Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights."

Facebook has banned Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas from its platform and removes content praising the group regarded by Israel, the United States and the European Union as a terrorist group.

In 2020, more than 15,000 people made about 1.6 million edits to the online encyclopedia's Arabic content, creating more than 77,000 new entries. Registered users grew by 44% to 136,000.