Facebook and Instagram’s parent company has dramatically expanded its hate speech policy.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta will start removing more posts that attack “Zionists” when the term is used to represent Jewish people or Israelis more generally.
Meta said it had consulted 145 stakeholders over the past three years, including academics and civil rights experts from around the world, to help decide how to address the term on its platforms.While Zionism is considered by many to be a political movement to establish a formal Jewish state in the Middle East, the company said that people are also using the term “Zionist” to refer to Jewish or Israeli people more broadly.
Meta previously considered the term “Zionist” as a proxy for Jewish people in very narrow or explicit cases, like if Zionists were compared to rats, according to the blog post. This change in policy expands what could be a violation to phrases where “Jew” or “Israeli” are not mentioned. Meta acknowledges that policing the new rule could be a challenge. “There is nothing approaching a global consensus on what people mean when they use the term ‘Zionist,’” according to the blog post.But Meta will remove posts when the term is calling for physical harm, dehumanising Zionists by comparing them to animals or “filth”, or suggesting Zionists are “running the world or controlling the media.
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