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Meta announced plans on Friday to step up efforts to enforce its policies against violence and misinformation as the war in Israel, stemming from the largest attack by Hamas terrorists on the country in decades, continues.
The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, set up a “special operations center” with experts, including those fluent in Hebrew and Arabic, to monitor the social media platforms and more quickly target content that violates Meta’s policies to remove.
In the first three days of the war in Israel, Meta removed or flagged more than 795,000 posts in Hebrew and Arabic for violating its policies on dangerous organizations and individuals, violent and graphic content, and hate speech, the company said.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in Israel’s war so far, including at least 1,300 Israeli civilians and soldiers and 27 Americans. Thousands more were injured in the violence and many others were taken hostage by Hamas and raped, tortured and murdered.
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Meta announced plans to step up efforts to enforce its policies against violence and misinformation as the war in Israel, stemming from the largest attack by Hamas terrorists on the country in decades, continues. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Meta said Hamas is banned from Facebook and Instagram because of their policies on dangerous organizations and individuals.
“We want to reiterate that our policies are designed to give everyone a voice while keeping people safe on our apps,” the company said in a statement. “We apply these guidelines regardless of who is posting or what their personal beliefs are, and it is never our intention to suppress any particular community or viewpoint.”
“Given the larger volume of content reported to us, we understand that content that does not violate our policies may be removed in error,” the statement continued. “To mitigate this, for some violations we temporarily remove content without warnings, meaning these content removals will not result in account suspension. We continue to provide users with tools to appeal our decisions if they believe we made a mistake.”
The tech company also said it is working with AFP, Portal and Fatabyyano to fact-check posts and push content with false claims down users’ feeds.
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Meta said Hamas is banned from Facebook and Instagram because of their policies on dangerous organizations and individuals. ((Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) / Getty Images)
The initiative comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on the European Union to be “very vigilant” in removing illegal content and disinformation in a letter.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said Meta was required under the agency’s new online rules, the Digital Services Act, to take “timely, diligent and objective action” after the tech giant reported illegal content on its platforms was informed.
Breton sent a harsher letter to X on Tuesday warning of the spread of “illegal content” and disinformation on the platform. The EU announced on Thursday that it would investigate X over how it handled “terrorist and violent content and hate speech” about the war in Israel.
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Meta set up a “Special Operations Center” with experts to monitor its social media platforms and more quickly remove content that violates its policies. ((Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images) / Getty Images)
Musk has scaled back removals of content and users from the platform and reinstated suspended accounts as part of his alleged commitment to free expression on the social media site. X has also changed the verification system so that anyone can now verify whether they have paid for the platform’s subscription service.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino responded to Breton’s letter before the EU announced its investigation. She said the platform removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts and added community notes to tens of thousands of posts, which are approved fact checks from X users.
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Yaccarino also said the platform has “reallocated resources and realigned internal teams” and “appropriately and effectively assess and address identified fake and manipulated content during this ever-evolving and changing crisis.”
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