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Meta to broaden hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists' (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Meta has said it will expand its hate speech policy to cover more uses of the word "Zionist" when applied to Jews or Israelis on its platform.

We will now remove messages targeting 'Zionists' in several areas where our investigation has shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with dehumanising comparisons, calls to harm, or denials of existence," the company said in a press release on Tuesday.

In December, Human Rights Watch said that Meta was guilty of “systemic censorship of Palestine content” during Israel's war on Gaza.

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[-] Canary9341@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

Where did you read something like that? Originally it was about the creation of a jewish state, nowadays it's just for israeli nationalism.

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 0 points 6 months ago

As you can tell - basically deduced from context. I've never really seen the term zionist outside of xenofobic rants, so that's all I had to go on.

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