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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Bernadette B. Tixon

'Echoicide': How Gaza Posts Can Remain Online Yet Become Harder To Find on Meta

A Melbourne rally in support of Gaza; Meta accused of shadow‑banning Gaza war crimes posts (Credit: Matt Hrkac from Melbourne, Australia/WikiMedia Commons)

When Palestinian journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin posted footage he said showed Israeli soldiers committing alleged war crimes, he said tens of thousands of people flocked to his Instagram page.

Shihab-Eldin, who has more than 1.1 million followers, told Al Jazeera that Meta had 'made my page disappear several times' and had 'started severely shadow-banning accounts like mine that were central to the documentation process.'

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