"Meta" website, the parent company of the famous social network "Facebook", deleted the account of Al Jazeera Arabic broadcaster Tamer Al-Mashal from the platform, 24 hours after the program "Snowflake Summit" broadcast an investigation into "Meta"'s censorship of Palestinian content entitled Space. css.

The program's investigation, which aired on Friday, included confessions from Eric Barbing, the former head of Israel's cybersecurity agency, about his company's efforts to track Palestinian content according to criteria that included "liking" a photo of a Palestinian killed by Israeli occupation forces, who acknowledged that his agency I contacted Facebook and argued that the content should be removed.

According to Barbing, Facebook usually complies with requests and Israeli security services follow up on these matters, including bringing cases to court if necessary.

The investigation followed up on Barbing's confessions by interviewing a number of human rights and digital rights experts who agreed that there was a clear flaw in how Palestinian content was restricted.

The program also interviewed Julie Owono, a member of Facebook's Oversight Board, who admitted that there was a discrepancy in how the rules were interpreted and applied to Palestinian content, and added that recommendations had been sent to Facebook to correct this.

Al Jazeera said that it asked Facebook to explain why it closed Al-Mashal’s profile without warning or explanation, and it has not received a response yet.

Al-Mashal said that the profile that was deleted was his personal page, which he created in 2006 and was verified, and that he had at least 700,000 followers on it.

Al Jazeera said that Al-Mashal told the channel: “After the great success of the episode, I discovered that my personal profile on Facebook had been deleted without providing any explanations... It really seems like a kind of revenge for the program,” stressing that he had not received any response from Facebook yet. .

Al-Mashal revealed that the program team had begun investigating the extent of the gap between how Facebook deals with Palestinian and Israeli posts and materials, and to do this, an experiment was conducted in which (the team) built two different pages, one with a pro-Palestinian perspective and the other pro-Israel, and conducted experiments on them. The team concluded that there was indeed a significant discrepancy in the amount of scrutiny there was and how the rules were applied to posts on either page.

It is not clear why Facebook would choose to delete an individual's page in response to a program, and several months ago Facebook briefly deleted the Al-Quds newspaper's page without justification.

According to Al Jazeera English, there was no explanation or warning, as Al-Mashal said, “There were no problems with any content on my page before, and there is no indication that I violated any rules.”

Al-Mashal said that last March, Facebook restricted his account, and this has happened other times, but usually the situation is resolved, which was not the case this time.