In fresh assault on media freedom, Facebook deletes Quds Press page from its platform

In a fresh assault on media freedom, American social media giant Facebook has permanently removed the page of the Arabic-language Quds Press International News Agency from its platform without prior notice.

The latest brazen attack on the freedom of speech targeted the Facebook page of the Britain-based news agency with more than 192,000 followers.

The move came days after the news agency reported about the Israeli regime’s repeated provocations of the religious sentiments of Palestinian Muslim worshipers, desecration of the sanctity of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds, and racist gestures by extremist Jewish settlers during the so-called march of the flag.

Quds Press said in a statement that such actions are aimed at silencing the Palestinian and Arab narratives while amplifying Israeli accounts.

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The statement added that Facebook has previously blocked and removed hundreds of pages that promoted the Palestinian narrative of the protracted Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and even deleted pages that sympathized with Palestinian sufferings at the hands of the occupying Tel Aviv regime.

Quds Press stressed that the professionalism and impartiality of Facebook have been significantly undermined as a result of its collusion with Israel to suppress pro-Palestinian content.

In recent years, Facebook — along with YouTube, Twitter, and Google — have repeatedly targeted media outlets belonging to pro-resistance groups, Iran, and the countries critical of the West and the Israeli regime’s occupation of Palestine.

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Last November, Palestinian journalists, and activists launched a campaign dubbed “Facebook Blocks al-Quds” to raise their voices in rejection of the years-long censorship of pro-Palestinian content on the American giant’s platform.

Sada Social Center said in a press release at the time that the campaign was launched following the blocking and/or restriction of many pages belonging to

Palestinian media outlets and thousands of personal accounts for Palestinian citizens and journalists on Facebook.

As part of the campaign, activists denounced “the double standards policy” followed by the Facebook-parent company Meta.

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“While [Meta] is escalating its crackdown on the Palestinian narrative under flimsy pretexts, it does not lift a finger about the Israeli incitement, which calls for the killing and apprehension of Palestinians,” read the campaign's statement.

The campaign accused Meta of ignoring the Palestinian narrative that has shed light on the crimes of the Israeli regime in occupied al-Quds, saying that the “Facebook algorithms strictly censor any pro-Palestinian content, and do not take into account what's happening on the ground in Palestine.”

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.ir