Just yesterday Instagram took down stories by Adnan Barq, a journalism student who’s also been providing amazing coverage of the violence and brutality of the IOF and Israeli settlers, especially in the past few days.
— هَزار SaveSheikhJarrah# (@hazarwlabgad) May 5, 2021
A lot of my IG stories regarding last night’s colonial violence in Sheikh Jarrah have been removed because they were considered “hate speech,” even though most of them featured no writing. I got another notification that my account may be deleted.
— Mohammed (@m7mdkurd) May 6, 2021
I had 10k followers on @tiktok where all I did was speak on social justice issues. All I have been doing is speaking up on Palestine. And about sheikh Jarrah and Gaza but of course silencing Palestinian voices is a priority. pic.twitter.com/Fc9Wk6G49u
— Hebh Jamal (@hebh_jamal) May 12, 2021
Instagram is deleting Palestinian activists’ stories on the ethnic cleansing happening in Sheikh Jarrah. This is not a conspiracy, this is not a fluke. Social media companies have been & will always be antithetical to revolution & resistance. #SaveSheikhJarrah
— Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري (@yarahawari) May 6, 2021
Our #SaveSheikhJarrah FB group, which had 10k+ members, was disabled. Zuck supports ethnic cleansing.
— Mohammed (@m7mdkurd) May 13, 2021
This is really striking.
— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) May 8, 2021
I follow @subhitaha_, a young Palestinian-American on Insta. He’s been posting about #SheikhJarrah and almost all his content is getting labelled as “sensitive” and potentially upsetting when often he’s just sharing information.
One example: pic.twitter.com/RchUdmLWZp
.....?........Instagram is labeling these and several other #SheikhJarrah posts I’ve seen today as “sensitive content.” Overlays like this on social media, by design, tend to deter sharing/limit the reach of posts. pic.twitter.com/WwtHaEVrcO
— suhauna hussain (@suhaunah) May 8, 2021