An Tel Aviv Tribune social media experiment is testing whether some platforms discriminate against pro-Palestinian Arabic content.
Tel Aviv Tribune is investigating how social media moderation and censorship policies work and whether the treatment of pro-Palestinian content in Arabic is fair and impartial. Ahead of Israel’s war on Gaza that began in October 2023, Tel Aviv Tribune investigated the disparity between Meta’s moderation of Israeli and Palestinian messages. They created two Facebook pages, one in Arabic and another in Hebrew, both posting the same stories with the same images, but each following its own narrative. The film shows moderators in action and offers a wealth of insight into what some now see as an increasingly closed cyberspace.