An independent study commissioned by Meta has shown that the social media giant has repeatedly deprived Palestinians of freedom of expression, treated Arabic language content more harshly than Hebrew content, and blocked Palestinian journalists from their platforms. The parent company of both Facebook and Instagram found “a lack of oversight at Meta that allowed content policy errors with significant consequences to occur”, when studying their response to Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza in May 2021. “Meta’s actions in May 2021 appear to have had an adverse human rights impact on the rights of …