Are social media giants censoring pro-Palestine voices amid Israel’s war?

Many users have been shadowbanned or are unable to share photos and videos on social media platforms when they post about Palestine [Courtesy of a Palestinian influencer's account]

At the end of last week, Thomas Maddens, a filmmaker and activist based in Belgium, noticed something strange. A video about Palestine that he posted to TikTok with the word “genocide” suddenly stopped getting engagement on the platform after an initial spike.

“I thought I would have got millions of views,” Maddens told Al Jazeera, “but the engagement had stopped.”