How social media platforms are silencing Palestinian voices Facebook acknowledged it had inaccurately labelled certain words commonly used by Palestinians online as incitement to violence. A Palestinian woman at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City. | Ammar Awad / Reuters As the Israel-Palestine ceasefire agreement holds, social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram (that is owned by Facebook), continue to come under fire over the censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In times of conflict, any kind of censorship by major platforms can erase evidence of state-sanctioned violence, human rights abuses and potential war crimes against innocent civilians. The Institute for Middle East Understanding highlights a post by @A7madAbuznaid on the extent of Instagram’s censorship. Photo credit: @theimeu/Instagram/Screenshot