safety ports say indiscriminate firing by soldiers. off property by troops and aid groups say people desperate for food clothing and that's. just one story more than 5000 migrants have crossed into the spanish enclave from neighboring morocco this is the largest single day influx into the city which is one of 9 territories in africa which are controlled by spain many of them swam to safety more than a 1000 of them. spain says it is increasing security and border services in the area to speed up the return of those who have arrived. to the headlines at half past the hour israeli forces continuing their bombardment of gaza this is of course from the ground near the gaza border israel's hospitals

are overwhelmed and there is a severe shortage of electricity in the gaza strip 212 palestinians have been killed including 61 children since the bombing began 8 days ago palestinian factions of also more rockets into israel hitting a building in. israel says more than 3000 rockets have been launched since the offensive began and at least 10 people in israel have been killed and that includes 2 children live pictures from ramallah here as palestinian leaders call for a general strike across the occupied territories and israel on tuesday to protest against the violence and the occupation of these 21 palestinians have been killed in the occupied west bank since monday and abraham has more now from ramallah. this is the 1st time in decades that we've seen palestinians across the political divide partake in such a general strike and they say that the ploy under israel is the same those

palestinians living in israel say that are facing discrimination in the occupied east jerusalem they say they're facing continuous violations of assaults by israel as well as those of the occupied west bank who say that they're facing all measures of the israeli occupation when it comes to human expansion as well as settler attacks and those in gaza are facing the bombardments handed over news a powerful sign swept ashore in western india killing at least $21.00 people took to it is weakening after making landfall in the state of on monday but it's caused damage in states run along the coast from maharashtra all the way down to carolina 200000 people have been forced from their homes the sea levels rose as high as 3 the winds reached more than 185 kilometers per hour once again up to date with the headlines from al jazeera next year in the story. i'm perry

davies and the camberley and western australia are indigenous communities it's teaming up with scientists to create a new approach to marine conservation the 1st thing you learn if we even got to be a couple of old like your. grandfather. i'm a friend your new reporting from brazil that you're going to try to protect them by they were 30 defending themselves against illegal invaders. on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a for the post 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 highlighted beydoun he says twitter removed 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 almost people to absolute stories of 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 the entire name of ways they don't come up sometimes people being stopped from going live and even live streams life videos being blocked we are also the founder of the distal powerful muslim what did you find in the investigation this is what a man told us a. and i report we documented over 12000 user experience and we sifted through 250 e-mails of people screenshots and documentation of their censorship

balancer graham's platform one of the largest things we noticed was a lot of users were experiencing a drop in drop in their reach or when people said about policy on interference platform and this is happening to a lot of keep healthy activists and this is happening to a lot of. public figures that are actively speaking out against the injustices that palestinians 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 comments section and part of today's discussion 3 expert guests here or palestinians it's good to see you. introduce yourself. but the evening everybody saw this is one of the local advocacy manager that it's

there for the advancement of social media good to have you welcome to the street but he will want you to know. my name is not a man just him based rachel and i'm very involved in social media. is very thick it actually get to happen. welcome to the state. hi everyone my name is my 2 upper class and i did the work are back to us now in the middle east and north africa region as the mino policy manager we are a global digital rights organization working to defend and extend human rights. and i'm very pleased to be on your show. when i mean for a muslim talking you will or will recognizing a lot of what he counsels to name festa gate but from the outside it could seem the . whole other being poly know it what is going 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 with the 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 the israeli government acts as an it government employee might be an employee of facebook afterward after finishing with a government contract so there are axis 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 re see the bias against a content 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 ins and keeps happening often and too often actually i got a happy couple. thanks so well look and let me tell you something there are like a 50 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 bury in an extended greek rest request 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 it can be 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 algorithms by liking the profile of bill israeli content or by deporting the dini and 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 google groups on their social media that firms like what's telegram they were organizing and mobilizing themselves but that palestinians inside against palestinians on best social media

and through our web atomic we we have this annual report it's the end of 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 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 parson a lot of pushing for a moment because you are the evidence that you have amassed your organization of a huge and then you will seeing that scuttles this will suggest 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 hewing 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 we've now 60 issue is the issue fixed by. 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 narrative oh palestinians and their

allies were sharing solid solidarity contend with what's happening in palestine right 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 glimpse 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 been 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 a note to give you some more technical as we have one from twitter we have lots of

facebook of us here some opinions about what facebook is staying 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 and was really content almost all of the. post about the illegal expulsion of palestinians and. 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 just to laugh but i can hit other tell you go fast offering the take in secondary head silas aside it needed of 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 say there are issues and there are problems they can be dismissed technical issues or the censorship is real because you know the evidence is there and it's always changing and changing and shifting forms but we're not only there 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 so 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 spokesperson 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 have been think these technical bug like for many years ago i mean it did not start like good days ago as we are focusing on the best the few days but

obviously it started before and as i as i started and as i mentioned. there and yes your report has been going on for a while so you're looking at these has that this is just not this one to think about i think let me say that with 50 is a little bit continuous technical bug against palestinian cleared for science again but if being in that range then on the digital age and we are facing the discrimination let me stay with it we don't have to face what we don't have the statement said we are 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 they couldn't bring attention to important events or who felt this was a deliberate suppression of their voice this was never our intention to allow 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 and 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 the accept the request by the israeli government or the lobby group for example to fix on that massive major page because it deflects what happens at the 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 when they've been content that bright savile's to help keep at humility safe while making sure people can keep sharing what matters to them and they also outlined that they have to dedicate to teams including native arabic and hebrew so they are saying we we are managing the situation we are trying to make sure that everyone 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 are systems that they news to moderates huge content that scale because you have billions of follow 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 a situation similar to based 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 activist 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 should 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 hampel 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 thoughts 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 ability. mamma 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 metering 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 needs is a refusal to look at her 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 'd on social media where both are being removed and i wish to improve also being blocked 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 himself by them police organizations like us and international organizations but also by citizens. we are getting so many questions about now what do we do about this let's start here were for a fat man i'm going to respond to this very briefly a.j. stream it's concerning if our tweets of 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 that can 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 comment and to report to the social media companies act as. a trusted partners for this as a threat the partner for such a media company the most interesting point and most of the content that we have you ported was 1212 that i knew we were able to restore to that kind of content and that accounts for such cases yet for such cases 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 is 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 moderate arab comes and there is a huge programatic huge gap and that's where we are 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 merion but could see a tweet that she posted recently important point my account was suspended then be instated without me having to do much because you all spoke up for that thank you for being so quick 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 a younger platforms of it like to talk there is also a sense of there being 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 past couple of months tick-tock taken stage as that social media platform that is facing i would see so far the content filtration moderation is not a strict and and tyrannical us facebook or twitter nazi tick-tock 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 from material and it's all colliding history in the soldiers palestinians people dancing on both sides and then there's this clash that was how our we seeing 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 wide fire on tick tock a semantic to tell and that really played a huge part in spreading the message of the current movement to a wider audience especially because to 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 and palleted do not so good at the patterns what are the messages that wow

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