it's about donations this is some it's also a try and see if there are ways to encourage more international investment. to open up the country. banking. to the world's biggest media companies are merging in a deal worth $43000000000.00 u.s. telecoms giant 80 into says it's warner media business will be combined with discovery bringing together h.b.o. c.n.n. the food network and other brands the deals are expected to be finalized by the middle of next year. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera. daybreak has brought more israeli airstrikes on gaza the conflict between israel and hamas has pushed the death toll in gaza to at least $212.00 on monday israeli

attacks destroyed a building that housed gaza's religious affairs ministry and killed a senior commander of islamic jihad palestinian groups of 5 more rockets from gaza into israel injuring at least 17 people residential towers were struck and the cities of asked of them bear sheba sending people running to me by shelters at least 10 israelis have been killed in the conflict. because president joe biden has expressed support for a cease fire during his latest call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu biden is under growing pressure from members of his own party to accuse him of ignoring the plight of palestinian civilians john hendren has more now from washington d.c. . the president his changed his approach in that earlier today he was asked about the potential for a cease fire he said he would be talking to netanyahu but he didn't throw his support behind it at that point but apparently in the call that he held with netanyahu the president was explicit according to the white house the president

expressed his support for a cease fire and discussed u.s. engagement with egypt and other partners toward that end a fierce cyclon has come ashore in the west in india killing at least 21 people so i think i'll take crosstie posting to graduate state on monday that is being described as the most powerful storm in decades there are fears hospitals already dealing with a devastating coburg 19 outbreak become overwhelmed and india has recalled its highest danny kona virus death toll so far at least $4300.00 died in the past 24 hours but the number of confirmed dead infections dropped below 300004 the 2nd day in a row and the head of the world health organization has described the disparity between vaccine votes in wealthier countries and poor nations as a form of apartheid. so says the gap is huge. well those are the headlines the news continues here not to 0 after the stream stage and so watching for. frank assessments. and what may have never taken for the situation might

not be repeated ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry us and this is a message to the region the united states is rethinking here to military posture in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al jazeera. high and femi ok for the past 2 weeks al-jazeera has been reporting from east jerusalem and sharing news from the gaza strip online people from doing exactly the same thing commenting sharing their take but some people have noticed something odd going on let me give you a few examples here on twitter we have a beydoun he says twitter removes my video of gaza being bombed tonight. was trying

to live stream massive not by day rally in minneapolis on facebook but it took down my page. on the digital platform for young muslims muslim this is what social media censorship of palestine looks like that is what they're calling it a crowd sourced some of the stories that they were seeing an os people to absolute their stories and what they were seeing individuals post about palestine not showing up on such. if you're looking for an individual you have to type out the entire name not just the beginning of a name their entire name of choice they don't come up sometimes people being stopped from going live and even live streams life videos are being blocked we asked the founder of the distal powerful muslim what did you find in the investigation this is what amir told us at a an airport we documented over 12000 user experience. with the 254 people screen shotting documentation of their censorship 3 grams apart form

one of the largest things we know this was a lot of users were experiencing a drop in drop in their reach or when people said about card interest platform and this is happening to a lot of keep active if this is happening to a lot of. public figures they're actively speaking out against. injustice is that how things are facing right now on. our show today also should media platforms the lip or at least silence and palestinians there's so many of you on you tube already i know you have a tight jump into the comment section be part of today's discussion 3 expert guests here or palestinians it's good to see you mona. mona introduce yourself. but the evening everybody saw this is what i look at look at the monitor at that

it's there for the advancement of social media to have you welcome to the story but he will want you to know. my name is not a man just him based rachel and i have been involved in social media. is very likely to actually get to happen or welcome to the state. hi everyone my name is my 2 upper club and i did the work are back to us now in the middle east and north africa region as the mean a policy manager we are a global digital rights organization working to defend them extend human rights and and i'm very pleased to be on your show to have you lend me for a muslim talking you will. recognizing a lot of what he kraus a listening fest a gated but from the outside it could seem. a whole other being poly know it what is dying on who would do this one good example for all of this start.

basically what our content is facing is a lot of facts and then from people. i access and influence and ability to. censor it. we are not as able to control who censors who rates our content who manages that but unfortunately for us our enemies are more accessible they have better connections and even israeli government x. is in a government employee might be an employee of facebook afterward after finishing with a government contract so there are axes seems to be way more intricate and more. than ours and that leads to a certain biases being casually take into into consideration by those major companies and that's why risi the bias against accountants very clearly when there

is censorship and then there is a. gret apology by the company by the same time there is censorship and it's not a mistake that top and keeps happening often and too often actually. pick up. thank you so when you look at let me tell you something there are like a 15 medicare perth's and to silence palestinians on the online space the israeli government is trying with all its power to silence palestinians even if you as a voluntary big towns where the israeli side vary in standing greek rest. in the quest for the social media companies for example and in 21000 there are 8 or had made like 19000 requests to the social media companies you know guarding the country big down. but if you need a constant dig down and in 2020 then i'm but only continue to write or. other other other ways or other forts that the israeli government has been used to silence

palestinians online through the gun go which as a non-governmental organization but it's supported by the government they are working like a child with the social media and they are playing with the i'll go to them by liking the profile its content or by the porting the palestinian content by the link so they are trying to hide the palestinian content or take a dump on and giving much more opportunities to the israeli content to promote that much more than that the israeli government is putting pressure on that social media companies to take the palestinian content down if we compare it with that israeli content we can see like we have observed and documented many groups on their social media that firms like what's telegram they were organizing and mobilizing themselves attack palestinians and to incite against palestinians on best social media and through our atomic we we have this annual report it's that and the

censorship and the last year i mean 2020 version of this over this report should lush showed that when one out of every 10 posts about that if the unions and i don't quit painting violence speech and it's also shows an increase in violent this course the where it's out of by 16 over the previous year which is 22001000 by doing so we can see how social media companies are biased against palestinian nation they are taken down to 15 years on my back and i just don't buy into the highest in a lot of pushing for a moment because you are the evidence that you have amassed your organization is a must is a huge and then you will seeing that schedule stressful such as from my side i can go to what twitter is is saying and what instagram is saying. on instagram com

say communications we know that some people are experiencing issues uploading and viewing stories this is a widespread global technical issue not related to any particular topic and we're 6 in it right now and i just got a fast forward to a little bit later with now 60 issue is the issue of 6. the short answer is no and i want to highlight it to our audience tonight is that this is not in your problem palestinian activists and journalists and users of social media have been decrying the discrimination that they're facing on those platforms for years but i am personally someone who has worked and wrote a lot about this topic i have not seen anything of this scale so gravesen of this boring and so incredible it's beyond censorship it's digital are pressuring social media companies are actively suppressing the narratives oh palestinians and their

allies were sharing solid solidarity contend with what's happening in palestine where i document saying human rights violations and war crimes. so to media companies and particularly instagram but statement that you showed us was basically at the start of the censorship that we started documenting on thursday last week but even though the company is specially facebook at every account of content takedown and restrictions repeatedly saying this is a technical error this is a system glitch we haven't seen a week more than a week later any reduction in the content being taken down in fact we see more and more creative and city of swathes of restricting content online we're talking about shadow banning what mentioned by muslim people are finding it

extremely hard to have an average outreach agni it did before before they started speaking out on the issue. when people aren't able to use the simple functions of a platform like liking or commenting their live streaming is being disrupted and blocked on twitter and on twitter you'll find accounts being restricted. content being clag to sensitive or accepting or offensive when it's actually a hash tag like hash tag save palestine or hash tag as under attack now there are many stories emerging from users showing ways in which to me even your methods that social media companies are using to suppress the narrative and to suppress the content and so those those techniques so-called technical errors you know they are and can really convenient excuses i have to say i'm going to i'm going to give you another give you some more technical as we have one from twitter we have one of the

say spoke 1st here some opinions about what facebook is doing right now as we cover news from east jerusalem and the gaza strip have a listen. facebook's oversight board an independent body tasked with deliberating on the platforms content decisions includes former director general these really minister of justice and the palmer palmer personally manage israel's cyber unit in the past which successfully lobbied for the removal of thousands of pieces of ballots in content from facebook in 2018 a former israeli justice minister claimed that facebook google and youtube were complying with up to 95 percent it was really of content almost all of the. post about the illegal expulsion of palestinians and beatings and had thought bombings in gaza have been removed for violating community standards this footage however reveals israel's times of apartheid he still has a long history of collaborating with the israeli government the palestinians reaffirmed that they will not be silent. so i'm just looking at

a tweet that's just come in to fill out i can hit other tell you go fast on bringing the turret in secondary head silos aside it needed the articulated guide to go ahead. and just i want to say very clearly we are not paranoid we are not paranoid about what tompkins on social media over the past let's say 7 or 8 years really have seen evidence clear evidence of censorship of accounts being taken down double stunned just in the way facebook or twitter it deals with the palestinian news page and an israeli propaganda military page for example we've seen those double standards seen the evidence over the past years when we see their issues and their problems they can be dismissed as technical issues or the censorship is real because we know the evidence is there and it's always changing and changing and shifting forms but we're not only the censorship is always there against us yes i

am going to share this with you i'm going to we can we can break it down bit by bit we asked facebook to be part of the program they sent us a very specific statement for us so i'm going to put that up on the screen see you can see at the couple of things that jump out at the end i'm just going to guess to to help me understand what is going on here so facebook spokes person says we know there have been several issues that have an impact to people's ability to share our apps including a technical bug that affected stories around the world an error which temporarily restrict the content of being viewed on the. hashtags page mona lisa sponsors to that technical box so. yeah we we never believe in technical bonds because we've been think that these technical bug like for many years ago i mean it did not start like then days ago as we are focusing on the best

a few days but obviously it started before and as i as i started and as i mentioned . there and yes your report that's been going on for a while so you're looking at these hashtags this is just not this one to think about i think let me say that we think if this is a little bit continuous technical bug against palestinian clearance for science again but if being in that range then on the digital age and we are facing the discrimination let me stay let me go to we don't have face but we only have the statements that we're going to debate with a statement to allow facebook says we're so sorry to everyone who felt they couldn't just let's put this up quite well so so to everyone who felt that couldn't bring attention to important events or who felt this was a deliberate suppression of their voice this was never our intention to never alan thompson. yeah that is the problem when they see a statement like that and pretend or act as if there is no technical issue perhaps

perhaps there was a technical issue or technical bug but we you know for sure for a fact that major pages had been ticking down and there were notices given out to those pages seeing the speed has been ticking down even though it would have like 5600000 followers for people who want to follow the news from accords from jerusalem from the west bank. from the ground those pages will be taken down with a notice by facebook saying you have been taken down for this reason usually incitement or promoting something that is or isn't like and we know that those pages are completely reporting factual information from ground for from the ground in palestine and suddenly it turns out that the. treatment 3 received in real life is considered to be unacceptable by the facebook standards for example and they accept the request by the israeli government or the lobby group for example to extend that massive major page because it deflects what happens at

a same source for facts that's what happens my let me give you this final piece that jumped out at me at the facebook statement that was sent specially for this program so i thank you so i spoke for this we focused on living content that bright savile's to help keep the militants safe while making sure people can keep sharing what matters to them and they also outlined that they have dedicated teams including native arabic and hebrew so they are saying we we are managing the situation we are trying to make sure that everyone in all of the communities who are concerned about what is happening right now that that we are on top of this volatile are they and i think there are 2 issues here one their issue of the technical bug you know those algorithms or systems that they news to moderates huge content that scale because you have billions apollo followers or users on this block so you can moderate everything using human

moderators right but those systems don't are not don't exist and are not created in a vacuum and we have been demanding 3 years that there is some sort of algorithmic transparency towards exactly those kind of situations where. interesting enough there are people who are affected by those so called system glitches are oppressed communities are activists are journalists i have not heard of situations similar to this in other places and at this huge scale of course it happened in other places in india and colombia where there are currently either covert 19 crises or mass protests but then again why do your systems always tend to disproportionately targets and activists and

oppress communities that rely on those platforms and to document human rights abuses and to share their narrative because they don't have access to mainstream media then on the other hand they also actively have or have developed content moderation policies that are biased and discriminatory and i think we shouldn't also. you know go and go along with the argument that this is a result of a system glitch but you have actually policies that disproportionately target palestinian speech pretty good sample they have the so-called zionist policy which equates or uses the word zionist as a proxy for jewish or israeli let alone the fact that this is a problematic for oldfield view to begin with because also you have none zionist jews and none zionists israelis but anyways they're using this policy which.

makes it extremely hard for users to criticize zionism to criticize the state of israel through. how and open discussion and have been legitimate political speech without being censored and this is not merely a policy that they have in place so let me and then i'm going to bring in some let me bring in some other folks well as this just because i want to bring in our online audience as well who are watching and want to talk to you. but these are some thoughts about let them what do you do where is the accountability. mala gyllenhaal moba you think giving us a little examples of how social media platforms are making decisions on posters behalf wessex accountability let's talk about when social media platforms and means your media center reality voices they're also greenlighting the brutality and violence of israeli settlers the army and the police as they try to

shoot down palestinians killed instantly and boston university is a refusal to look at the harsh reality and pretend it isn't this rather than move forward to showcase it and do something about it as we've seen this week because in your freedoms are under threat not only in real life but also online on social media where both are being removed and irish and profiles are being blocked we're talking about thousands of cases so social media companies are huge importance it's a huge rule they play in order to preserve digital rights and preserve this documentation so we really hope that they will be held accountable but of cells by them police organizations like us international organizations but also by citizens . we are getting so many questions about now what do we do about this let's start here of rifat mode i'm going to respond to this very briefly a.j. stream it's concerning if our tweets of being deleted which means no one is free we

are controlled by those with power money free palestine then what do you do mode and make this place to get more people. yeah it's concerning it's very dangerous because they are controlling the palestinian narrative and for this we as hamlet was working over the last days to the command and to report to the social media companies act as. a trusted partners with us as just the partner for the social media company the most interesting point and most of the content that we have you ported was twelve's both that i knew we were able to restore to that kind of content and that accounts for such cases yet was not given they can report to him less and we will click to the social media company so we can bring back their content or their account which of suspended or to come back to you going to bring in marcus and marcus thank you for being on each of appreciate you marcus says i have been sharing everything i can what else can i do to help mama.

very vocal keep sharing and obviously those companies are extremely wealthy companies but unfortunately when it comes to having investing resources in our region to moderate arab content there is a huge program at a huge gap and that's what we're doing as access now and as a human rights organization working to enforce accountability and transparency for those companies because. it is a global power and a gatekeeper of deciding unilaterally what is permissible and what is not on line i'm just looking at marion but could see a tweet that she posted recently important point my account was suspended then v. unstated without me having to do much because you all spoke up for that thank you for being so quick for both easy to just be shot thank you for those that offer to

your own account for me to use let's do it for others too loudly talking about the power of the social media platforms and negative sense but if we go to a platform of young the platforms of it like to talk there is also a sense of there a positive way to organize what are you seeing what is this moment showing you as far as digital uses and what is possible to organize absolutely and especially in relation to the events in jerusalem over the us couple of months tick-tock taken stage as the solution to platform that is facing i would see. so for the content filtration moderation is not a strict and tyrannical us facebook or twitter nazi to talk enables people to post and participate in trends and it's not

a job or language it's just videos in palestine we ended up seeing a really a wide range of material and it's all colliding history in the soldiers palestinians people dancing on both sides and then there's this clash that how our receiving this for the 1st time and then we're sharing off the stories from jerusalem a few things being facing facing the police with such bravery for example those dicks talk videos were still looks pretty like wildfire on tick tock a semantic and that really played a huge part in spreading the message of the current movement to a wider audience especially caustic talk as the lists i would believe this content for the traditional moderation compared to other wars we're using right now so what i hear along. the law is that the social media platforms that they have. good unpalatable not so good it depends what's for the message what the platform what is

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