Hamas Banned from Meta Platform

Facebook's parent company Meta has banned content that supports or praises Hamas, the Palestinian Liberation Organization's armed group. According to the METa policy, Hamas is designated under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals Policy.

The social giant gave this information in a statement on Friday (October 13).

Hamas has been banned from our platform, Meta said in a statement. Posts praising or supporting Hamas have been removed. However, social and political issues will continue to be discussed on our platform in accordance with the provisions.

Meta also reported that 795,000 pieces of content had been removed in the three days since the start of the Israel-Hamas war until Friday. These contents were in Hebrew and Arabic. These posts or videos violate our rules. Hate has been spread.

The policy will also be applied to dangerous organizations, individuals, violent and graphic content, hate speech, violence and provocation and harmful information, Facebook said. "More than 795,000 posts in Hebrew and Arabic were removed for violating this policy in the three days following October 7," Meta said. This is seven times more than the previous two months.”

Temporarily enforcing more policies of violence and incitement. In particular, this issue is being removed. The company says, “As per our rules, our team is consistently repurposing content related to that hashtag. Also some Instagram hashtags have been restricted. They can no longer be found.

Meta is working with third-party fact-checkers to investigate rumors in the region. Meta operates a fact-checking network in both Arabic and Hebrew through AFP, Reuters and Fatabiano.