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Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war
By
Mohamed Mandour on February 11, 2024
https://cpj.org/2024/02/attacks-arr...high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/
Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging.....
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TechScape: Are social media giants silencing online content?
As violence on the ground continues, emotions on social media are higher than ever – with critics asking if platforms need more transparency around their algorithms
Kari Paul https://www.theguardian.com/technol...rael-gaza-war-social-media-content-censorship
As the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas and its devastating effects play out in real time on social media, users are continuing to criticise tech firms for what they say is unfair content censorship – pulling into sharp focus longstanding concerns about the opaque algorithms that shape our online worlds.
From the early days of the conflict, social media users have
expressed outrage at allegedly uneven censorship of pro-Palestinian content on platforms like Instagram and Facebook. Meta has denied intentionally suppressing the content, saying that with more posts going up about the conflict, “content that doesn’t violate our policies may be removed in error”......
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Dissident artist Ai Weiwei likens Gaza censorship in West with China 'under Mao'
The global artist criticised pro-Palestinian censorship in the West, which many say has increased in academic spaces and the media.
04 February, 2024
https://www.newarab.com/news/ai-weiwei-says-wests-gaza-censorship-maos-china
The artist made the comments in response to the cancellation of an art exhibition over social media posts on Israel and Gaza [Getty/file photo]
The popular Chinese artist and political dissident
Ai Weiwei has likened
pro-Palestinian censorship in the West to political suppression during the Mao Zedong era, in a new interview with broadcaster
Sky News on Sunday.
Ai, known for being outspoken in support of the Palestinian cause, said that
political censorship in the West is "exactly the same" as that in China under Chairman Mao – when he was exiled alongside his family during the 1950s and 1960s.
The artist's comments came in response to a question in the
Sky News interview on the cancellation of his exhibition in London in November after he had posted against Israel's deadly war in Gaza.
"Society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument," he said during a segment on the channel's 'Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips' show.
"I grew up within this heavy political censorship," he said in reference to his family’s exile, which took place when he was one year old.
"I realise now, today in the West, you are doing exactly the same."
Ai's exhibition at London’s
Lisson Gallery in mid-November was cancelled, following criticism of Israel in social a media post, which was deemed by some as "antisemitic".
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