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BuzzFeed News / Getty Images Earlier this month, a Facebook software engineer from Egypt wrote an open note to his colleagues with a warning: “Facebook is losing trust among Arab users.” Facebook had been a “tremendous help” for activists who used it to communicate during the Arab Spring of 2011, he said, but during the ongoing Palestinian–Israeli conflict, censorship — either perceived or documented — had made Arab and Muslim users skeptical of the platform. As proof, the engineer included a screenshot of Gaza Now, a verified news outlet with nearly 4 million followers, which...

In Egypt, one of the biggest official newspaper  Al-Ahram positively reported Abbas's ban. “His country’s government—with the cooperation of two of the world’s biggest social media platforms—finally got its way,” writes Jillian C York in her new book, Silicon Values: The future of free speech under surveillance capitalism.  Silicon Values traces the haphazard and chaotic creation of the speech principles that now govern the platforms billions of us use to communicate every day – demonstrating the patchwork influences of governments, campaigners, and the public on the comp...

The 21st century Victorians The Berlin-based writer and activist talked to us about Silicon Values, her new book on online censorship. Artikel anhören Jillian York Berlin - Jillian York is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Originally from the US, she's lived in Berlin-Friedrichshain for six years. We talked to her about her new book Silicon Values, which looks at the role of platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in censorship around the world. By Silicon Values you mean the values behind the big Silicon Valley platforms. What...

Are Facebook, Google and Twitter the New United Nations? | Opinion Raphael Tsavkko Garcia , journalist On 3/11/21 at 7:00 AM EST Publishing certain words on Facebook can lead you to suspension, no matter the context. Nudity? Even your elbows can be the source of censorship. Some songs that are critical in nature of political or religious topics, posted originally on YouTube, can also cause suspension if posted on Facebook. The company says they respect democracy and freedom of speech. That may be true, but their rules for what can and cannot be posted are shady at best. Fac...