Israeli Group Claims It Uses Big Tech Back Channels to Take Down Content
(theintercept.com)
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from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 12 Jan 2024 04:00
https://lemmy.world/post/10603987
Israeli Group Claims It Uses Big Tech Back Channels to Take Down Content::Iron Truth members have flagged thousands of posts for removal, from clearly racist or false content to posts that are merely sympathetic to Palestinians.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The brainchild of Dani Kaganovitch, a Tel Aviv-based software engineer at Google, Iron Truth claims its tech industry back channels have led to the removal of roughly 1,000 posts tagged by its members as false, antisemitic, or “pro-terrorist” across platforms such as X, YouTube, and TikTok.
While content moderation trigger-happiness around mere mentions of designated terror organizations has led to undue censorship of Palestinian and other Middle Eastern users, Big Tech policies on misinformation are, on paper, much more conservative.
“It’s really hard to identify disinformation,” Kaganovitch acknowledged in an interview, conceding that what’s considered a conspiracy today might be corroborated tomorrow, and pointing to a recent Haaretz report that an Israel Defense Forces helicopter may have inadvertently killed Israelis on October 7 in the course of firing at Hamas.
Even the words “Israel lied” were suggested to Iron Truth volunteers on the grounds that they could be used in “false posts.” On October 16, two days after an Israeli airstrike killed 70 Palestinians evacuating from northern Gaza, one Telegram group member shared a TikTok containing imagery of one of the bombed convoys.
Links to similar allegations of Israeli war crimes from figures such as popular Twitch streamer Hasan Piker; Colombian President Gustavo Petro; psychologist Gabor Maté; and a variety of obscure, ordinary social media users have received the same treatment.
Chat transcripts show many Iron Truth volunteers conflating Palestinian advocacy with material support for Hamas or characterizing news coverage as “misinformation” or “disinformation,” perennially vague terms whose meaning is further diluted in times of war and crisis.
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Genocidejoe
With the amount of blatant Jew hatred out in the open I’d be really interested to see the stuff deemed so bad it is taken down.
Dont worry u will get called a racist or genocide supporter long before anyone can provide any source documents to make an informed opinion.
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You literally have to check history book and wikipedia to get informed opinion. If lazy, you can check the UN statement and article, if lazy you just write “Palestine” in any news websites and go back to dates at the end of WWII and you can have informed opinion.
If history has taught us anything its that the genocude has always been committed by the losing side. Its awfully convenient that the good guys are the winners when it comes to the history books.
I apologized as my brain cells can’t comprehend this stupid statement.
Childlike insults are often a symptom of lack of perspective. Go read an actual history book and maybe ull understand things a little better.
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Ull -> u’ll -> you’ll - you will
Im more talking about the winning countries who are seen as the “good guys” the winners innocent is not a word i would use dresdon, hiroshima, nagasaki far worse than anything the isralies are doing but people seem to lose that perspective.
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Anything critical of Israel or pro Palestinian is deemed anti semitic by Zionists. It’s an attack on free speech.
I wonder how many anti-Zionist Jewish groups get affected by things like these.