Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024

A new report shows how Palestinian voices are being silenced online just as global attention is most needed to document war crimes.

Originally published on Global Voices

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As Israel's war on Gaza intensified in 2024, so too did the digital repression of Palestinian voices. A new report from Sada Social, a Palestinian digital rights organization, paints a troubling picture of how mainstream social media platforms — from Instagram to TikTok — are complicit in silencing Palestinian narratives.