{"id":271918,"date":"2024-08-26T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=271918"},"modified":"2024-08-22T04:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T03:32:39","slug":"meta-permanently-bans-the-cradle-in-latest-attack-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/meta-permanently-bans-the-cradle-in-latest-attack-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Permanently Bans The Cradle in Latest Attack on Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Credit: Esteban Carrillo<\/p><\/div>\n

The social media giant has singled out an independent West Asian media outlet, as it intensifies its crackdown on Palestinian and regional voices, both on its platforms and among its employees.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

19 Aug 2024 <\/em>– On 16 August, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta permanently banned The Cradle<\/i> from its social media platforms for allegedly violating community guidelines by \u201cpraising terrorist organizations\u201d and engaging in \u201cincitement to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo one can see or find your account, and you can’t use it. All your information will be permanently deleted,\u201d reads the message accompanying the ban on Instagram, where The Cradle<\/i> had surpassed 107,000 followers and amassed millions of views.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot request another review of this decision,\u201d the message ends, despite the fact the ban came with little warning or any chance for review.<\/p>\n

The Cradle<\/i> is an independent, journalist-owned news website that covers the geopolitics of West Asia from a West Asian perspective. Since 2021, the publication has made a name for itself by covering regional developments with the kind of breadth and depth \u2013 and nuance \u2013 that often go missing in mainstream corporate media.<\/p>\n

Meta’s accusations of \u201cpraising terrorist organizations\u201d and engaging in \u201cincitement to violence\u201d largely stem from posts and videos that relay information or quotes from West Asian resistance movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah \u2013 blacklisted by many western governments \u00a0\u2013 who are an essential part of the news stories unfolding in a region on the precipice of a major war.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

It is also essential to recognize that these are major West Asian political organizations that have deep institutional and civic roots within Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen and are part of the very fabric of these societies. They are represented in governance, run schools, hospitals, and utilities, and disperse salaries to millions of civilian workers.<\/p>\n

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Ironically, many of The Cradle<\/i>‘s Meta-flagged quotes on these organizations also come from Israeli and western officials:<\/p>\n

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