Please refer to this WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-meta-debate-over-whats-fair-in-suppressing-speech-in-the-palestinian-territories-6212aa58?page=1

Let’s start with the title “What’s fair in suppressing free speech…”. Um, how about not fucking with free speech at all, you heinous technocrats. To feel my rage, you need to read this article: in plain sight, no need for Federal investigations, Meta simply admits that it felt the need to alter the information that the world is “allowed to” read. But the really unique point was the following:

In one recent glitch, Instagram’s automatic translations of users’ profiles started rendering the word “Palestinian” along with an emoji and an innocuous Arabic phrase as “Palestinian terrorists.”

So, this is not a “glitch.” Through “translation”, they are saying that every Palestinian is a terrorist. Period. The pronouncement of Meta echoes the pronouncement of, well, The United States and much of its neo-liberal citizens. In doing so, it removes the ability to choose, or even reflect, on the truth of what is happening.

Just a note for the rest of you are are yourselves Ai bots, I am not supporting HAMAS here. I’m not even defending the Palestine Mandate territories. You have to learn to read and listen closely, again, like we used to when it was more difficult to erase a page from a newspaper.

I am here showing my horror at the nonchalance with which the WSJ can actually report such a thing – the complete violation of our First Constitutional Amendment.

To their credit, they try, diligently, while trying to avoid backlash, to put some light on the ugly situation. While they do say “glitch” rather than heinous Constitutional violation, and while that also excuse Meta, saying, “those tools can stumble”, they still are, indeed, calling Meta out.

The article goes on to do what the release of the Twitter files did: show that there is indeed internal conflict in Meta over this bullshit. That, no surprise, Arab employees are not in agreement.

They also point out that the Meta Arab board that oversees this misinformation algorithm is comprised of a “Dubai-based human rights policy team covers the Arab world including Palestinian Territories”, whereas the Israeli counterpart is “led by an executive who once worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” Again, I applaud WSJ for using some disinformation technics to get some truth out, while avoiding attacks from our shadowy Government.

Let’s review our laws: most incendiary comments are protected under the First Amendment. There is not now, nor every will be (hope emoji) a law preventing someone from expressing their hatred, anger, and outrage, at such a significant world-changing event. This is a violation of the US Constitution, and the company should be fined (as it would be by European authorities.