This musician says he was 'shadowbanned' for making pro-Palestinian posts. Is social media being censored?

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This musician says he was 'shadowbanned' for making pro-Palestinian posts. Is social media being censored?
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As the conversation around the Hamas-Israel war dominates social media, some content creators suspect they’re being deprioritised. But Meta and TikTok say they’re just trying to stop the spread of misinformation.

Venus Bleeds stands in his living room, gesturing wildly at his phone screen while images and headlines about Gaza flash behind his head. A Lebanese musician based in Paris, his green screen-style videos commenting on the Hamas-Israel war have gone viral on TikTok. Several have amassed between half a million to 800,000 views. “I'm angry, distressed, terrified…and I'm just sharing that,” he told The Feed.

” Venus Bleeds is concerned social media algorithms may be skewing online discourse. “ delusion that creators online have the freedom to speak about whatever they want, when in reality it's a biased algorithm,” he said. “It's making people believe that they're getting real information from the internet, from credible sources. But in reality, it's not really that.

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