Middle East
Facebook, Instagram Employees ‘Censor or Delete’ Protests against Iran
Former and current Facebook and Instagram employees are shedding light onto the “fact checkers” that are censoring vital content such as protests against Iran. “According to a report by BBC Persian, these employees admitted that at all levels of the company, the Iran regime’s influence has infiltrated, leaving biased and pro-regime content monitors to restrict, censor or delete posts about the current protests in Iran” reports The Foreign Desk.
Similar to censorship at the companies in the United States and elsewhere, the behavior is its own political movement. “The actions by these Iranian employees to remove images of the demonstrations in Iran and associated hashtags helps reinforce the Islamic Republic’s argument that the protests are not so widespread.”
According to one of the former employees who had his identity hidden for security purposes, told the BBC Persian in an interview from Germany, that the workers travel back and forth between Europe and Iran. “About 90 percent” of the decision making on censorship is done by these “fact checkers.”
“These are individuals who single-handedly take posts down. According to the source, employees are not allowed to have their personal cellular devices with them at their workstations, so these individuals go to the break room to report a post from their personal phones and then come back to their workstations and address the ‘complaint’ they just created.”
Instagram removed the below post from the @FarashgardFdn becase people chanted “down with Khamenei”.
This action gives us the impression they are censoring Iranian protesters. This is unacceptable @instagram. Restore the post! pic.twitter.com/gsc0M8UaCE
— Iranian Americans for Liberty (@LibertyIranian) May 16, 2022
The Foreign Desk adds:
In 2019 TELUS International became the third-party company contracted with Instagram and Facebook to become their fact checkers and address complaints from users reporting posts for violent, hateful, or threatening material.
A second source, a former TELUS employee, said approximately 400-500 Iranians work at the company in Germany, a country that is known to have diplomatic and bilateral relations with the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Republic has learned from the Green Revolution of 2009 to infiltrate Western social media outlets and their parent companies to control the narrative and prevent the international community from siding with anti-regime demonstrators.
Israel
Report: Captured Terrorists Confirm Shifa Hospital’s Role as Hamas Hideout
The Israel Defense Forces released footage alongside a statement on X of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives admitting that a huge amount of terror operatives are hiding in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The depositions are described in the statement as containing “details of Hamas terror infrastructure deeply embedded within the hospital, which is used by senior Hamas operatives for planning and directing terror attacks.”
One associate from Islamic Jihad told interviewers that he estimated that there were as many as 1,000 militants stationed in and around the medical campus, including certain sections that “belong” to his group. The individual described the maternity ward as his organization’s “headquarters.”
According to some of the prisoners in the recordings, the building’s medical residency department is serving as an improvised weapons storage room.
Some of the detainees claimed to have been stationed at the facility for as long as three months, which the Foreign Desk News explains suggests that the terror groups reestablished their positions shortly after Israel withdrew from the facility on November 15.
The hospital is a prime location for terrorists to conduct operations out of because they do not abide by International law, which requires that medical infrastructure be demilitarized during times of conflict. Additionally, any attempt to use them for belligerent activity is supposed to result in negating the statutory protections that they are given. However, “This distinction is important in light of criticism that Jerusalem has received for currently attempting to regain control of what is Gaza’s largest health care facility” according to the Foreign Desk News.
🔴WATCH: Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives reveal firsthand that "between 600 to 1,000" Hamas operatives are hiding in the Shifa hospital.
Hear the disclosed details on the deeply embedded terrorist infrastructure within the hospital for yourselves: pic.twitter.com/Mqa8eKcp65
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 26, 2024
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Publius Hamilton
May 25, 2022 at 1:33 am
Facebook is a despicable and loathsome political organization posing as an apolitical media company. Zuckerberg is a vain little man trying to advance the global socialist agenda yet he allows Iran to use his platform to conduct its propaganda war against Israel. Zuckerbergs illegitimate interference with, and manipulation of, American elections must end now.
juan
May 25, 2022 at 11:53 am
what else is new? the cowards send a blip out and then censor us the public. But won’t face up on us. Great scam! no one can question them and the morons that read it believe this garbage. Not surprised at the censors. they are so ignorant that they think when the country goes socialist they will be the firts to go…
Roger Berry
May 25, 2022 at 3:35 pm
DON”T USE Facebook , tic toc , instagram , twitter. OR ANY other lie posting social media !!!!