Facebook is on edge after the election defeat of its candidate (Harris).
In complete madness, Facebook decides to ban Israel’s largest daily newspaper.
Facebook must lose its platform privilege because Facebook moderates and edits opinions, news and more. Facebook is like a medium like CNN or NYT and is therefore fully responsible, liable, and subject to action.
Arutz Sheva wrote on its own behalf: “Arutz Sheva’s English Facebook page was suspended after several posts reporting various events during the war were removed for ‘hate speech.’“
However, one has to confess that also X bans pro-Israeli accounts, but not that large and important ones and they are quickly re-installed. Elon Musk obviously has still some deep problems with the former Twitter bureaucracy. It is not X’s official policy to fight free speech; quite the opposite.
“While covering the current war, the page, which has 151,999 followers, received several complaints against various reports on the war’s events including the elimination of senior Hezbollah official Nabil Qaouk on September 28th, an official IDF announcement about the commencement of the operation in Lebanon, the elimination of the terrorist who murdered a father in front of his children on October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to US President Joe Biden regarding a potential hostage deal, an IDF announcement about the dismantling of Hamas forces in Rafah, an IDF statement against Hezbollah, an announcement about the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, and even a post from October 8th reporting the atrocities committed by the Hamas terror organization a day earlier.
The complaints were received together with a message from Facebook reading: “It looks like you shared or sent something that attacks a person, or group of people, based on who they are.”
After Arutz Sheva’s appeal regarding the removals, Facebook replied that it had decided not to reinstate the posts.
While the Facebook page is still accessible, Arutz Sheva is unable to upload posts. At the same time, the site’s pages on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram are active and continue to provide up-to-date reports on news from Israel and around the world.”