Israel/Palestine

Alec Schemmel | May 20, 2021

An Israeli legal scholar complained that YouTube twice censored his interview about Israel’s strikes against the terror group Hamas. Then YouTube gave conflicting accounts about why it censored him.

Antonin Scalia Law School Professor…

Kayla Sargent | May 19, 2021

Facebook deplatformed a pro-Israel page with “75 million followers” after the page appeared to be the target of “anti-Semitic” attacks — flooding the page with one million comments that included photos of Hitler. 

Facebook shut down…

Kayla Sargent | May 12, 2021

Terrorist rockets continue to slam into the state of Israel. Yet on Twitter, Palestinians were encouraged to keep “[f]ighting this despotic regime” by the leader of the world’s biggest exporter of terror — Iran.

But Twitter removed former…

Alec Schemmel | December 29, 2020

Google has secured a tight grip around the research done by its staff, according to internal communications and other information obtained by Reuters.

A new “sensitive topics” review procedure has, in at least three cases, “requested…

Corinne Weaver | July 23, 2020

Twitter has been suspending accounts that prominently display the Star of David in their profiles. Yet the company refuses to remove anti-Semitic material and prominent anti-Semites from its platform. 

According to the Campaign…

Corinne Weaver | March 18, 2019

Twitter claims to be against “hate speech” and for “healthy conversation.” But the amount of anti-Semitic material allowed on its platform tells a different story.

The aftermath of a confrontation between Chelsea…

Corinne Weaver | November 14, 2018

Censoring political opinions as “hate speech” has made its way to Instagram.

Mimi Hecht, a business owner on Instagram, posted several statements on her Instagram story after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania…

Gabriel Hays | June 13, 2018

An Israeli Minister has demanded that Twitter police the official Hamas and Hezbollah social media accounts for being “actively engaged in inciting and executing attacks against innocent civilians.”

Israel’s…