Facebook employees demand change around Palestine posts: Report

Employees are asking Facebook to address claims that pro-Palestine voices are being suppressed, the FT reported.

Nearly 200 Facebook employees have signed a letter urging the company’s executives to address concerns that pro-Palestine voices on the social media site are being suppressed by content moderation systems. The letter, first reported on by the Financial Times (FT), urges Facebook’s leadership to introduce new measures that ensure pro-Palestinian content is not taken down, as critics claim happened during last month’s conflict in Gaza. The Facebook employees are also calling on management “to order a third-party audit of enforcement actions around Arab and Muslim content, and to refer a post by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing Palestinian civilians as terrorists to its independent oversight board”, the FT reported.