The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Tuesday, declared that it would henceforth remove every publication containing the word " Zionist " , when the term was intended to refer to Jews or Israelis and to imply talk that undermined their humanity or contained anti-Semitic stereotypes in its terms.
In a statement, Meta said: we will now remove messages aimed at Zionists in several fields where our investigation has shown that the term tends to be used to refer to Jews and Israelis, with inhuman comparisons, calls for harm or denial of their existence.
The giant social media group, based in California, launched five months ago research on how the term is being used on its platforms, given the increasing polarization of public discourse due to events in the Middle East.
The investigation, to which many experts, historians, jurists and associations contributed, sought to determine whether the term was used to refer to supporters of a political movement, Jews or the Israeli people, since its rules allowed public attacks against party members but not against groups of people determined on the basis of their nationality or religion.
The investigation conducted by Meta concluded that there was no general consensus on what people meant when they used the term Zioni.
However, in her statement, Meta drew attention to the fact that, based on our research and investigation into the use of this term on platforms to refer to the Jewish and Israeli people as related to certain types of hate attacks, we will henceforth remove contents that target Zionists with hate speech.
The statement cited some examples of the use of the term Zionists on platforms, including allegations that they ruled the world or controlled the media, and comparisons that devalued their human worth, such as comparisons between them and pigs, dirt or insects and calls for physical violence.
Until that decision, the platform supervisors were simply removing messages comparing Zionists to rats or when Jews or Israelis were clearly targeted.
On the other hand, Mita recently relaxed its rules regarding the use of the word « chihad » in Arabic, which was banned on its platforms as involving incitement to hatred.
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