An Al Jazeera social media experiment tests whether some platforms engage in pro-Palestinian content and anti-Arab discrimination.
Al Jazeera investigates 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 Gaza war that began in October 2023, Al Jazeera investigated the disparity between Meta’s moderation of Israeli and Palestinian positions. They created two Facebook pages, one in Arabic and one in Hebrew, both posting the same stories with the same images, but each following its own narrative. The film sees moderators in action, offering a variety of perspectives on what some see as today’s increasingly closed cyberspace.
