Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views as inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday.
“The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation,” Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept.
The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between two Israeli officials, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, and a delegation of Facebook representatives.
Erdan in July accused Facebook of being a “monster” that “sabotages the work of the Israeli police” and “sets a very high bar for removing inciteful content and posts.”
Shaked, however, said Monday that the social media site has complied with 95 percent of Israeli requests to take down content.
“Just as ISIS [Islamic State] video clips are being monitored and removed from the network, we want them to take the same action against Palestinian material that incites terrorism,” Shaked said at the International Conference on Counter-terrorism near Tel Aviv.
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Erdan, for his part, said Monday, “The internet can’t be allowed to become an incubator for terrorism.”
Reuters reports that “Shaked said that in the past year, Israel had issued 120 indictments against Palestinians and 50 against Israeli citizens—both Jews and Arabs—for Facebook postings that contain incitement.” That adds up to 70 percent of the indictments being against Palestinians.
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