Meta ‘Shaheed‘ Ban
Arab News, Musk’s X Corp. loses lawsuit against hate speech watchdog, 24 Mar 2024 “Meta’s Oversight Board on Tuesday issued a directive calling on the company to end its...
‘Zionist‘ Terminology and (potential) Censorship
Sam Biddle, The Intercept, Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word ‘Zionist‘. 8 Feb 2024 ““I think it may actually harm the fight against antisemitism,” said the head of...
Research on IS Supporters & Hamas Conflict
Meili Criezis, Global Network on Extremism and Terrorism, Pro-Islamic State Supporters’ Responses to the Israel-Hamas Conflict, 19 October 2023. “Although the task of navigating through the fog of mis/dis...
Animal Rights & Meta
Tonggo Simangunsong, RestofWorld, Illegal wildlife trafficking thrives in Facebook groups for “animal lovers”, 10 July 2023 “In Indonesia, Facebook is filled with groups where illegal sellers thrive, trading in exotic animals...
Malaysia-Meta
Hadi Azmi, SCMP, Malaysia to work with Meta on wiping ‘undesirable content’ from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, 5 July 2023. “Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to work with police in Malaysia to...
Insta Iran
AFP/The National, Tens of millions in Iran still use Instagram despite crackdown, Meta says “Meta on Thursday said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram...
TikTok Taliban
Ali M. Latifi, Wired, The Taliban Can’t Stop TikTok “TikTok’s rise in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon in a marketplace that has mainly been dominated by Facebook, which has...
‘Islamophobia’ in India
The New Arab, How Facebook is implicated in India’s Islamophobia epidemic “Facebook and other social media platforms have long been an incubator for intolerance. But with India’s Islamophobia crisis...
Predictive Facebook
The New Arab, Quran predicted Facebook, internet says Egyptian preacher“Egyptian Islamic scholar Mabrook Atiyah has caused a stir in Egypt by saying that the Quran predicted the internet and...