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The BBC has also spoken to five former and current employees of Meta about the impact they say their company’s policies have had on individual Palestinian users.<\/p>\n
One person, who spoke anonymously, shared leaked internal documents about a change made to Instagram’s algorithm, which toughened the moderation of Palestinians commenting on Instagram posts.<\/p>\n
“Within a week of the Hamas attack, the code was changed essentially making it more aggressive towards Palestinian people,” he said.<\/p>\n
Internal messages show that an engineer raised concerns about the order, worried that it could be “introducing a new bias into the system against Palestinian users”.<\/p>\n
Meta confirmed it took the measure but said it had been necessary to respond to what it called a “spike in hateful content” coming out of the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n
It said that policy changes put in place at the start of the Israel-Gaza war had now been reversed, but did not say when this happened.<\/p>\n
At least 137 Palestinian journalists are reported to have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, but a few carry on despite the dangers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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