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You've seen the posts-calls for ceasefire, Palestinian flags in bios, videos from Gaza that vanish from your feed overnight. What you haven't seen is how systematically these voices are being erased. This isn't a glitch or an accident. It's by design.
A sweeping investigation by Human Rights Watch exposed a pattern of censorship across Instagram and Facebook that began in late 2023. Researchers documented 1,050 cases of content takedowns and suppression in just two months. In a staggering finding, 1,049 of these cases targeted peaceful posts in support of Palestine. Only one case involved content backing Israel.
This was only the beginning.
The initial crackdown followed a clear script: stories about Palestinian suffering labeled "violent," accounts suspended without warning, key features disabled, and invisible "shadow bans" that hid content from public view. Even common phrases like "Free Palestine" were flagged as spam-political speech treated like bot-generated junk.
But by 2025, leaked internal data revealed the scale had exploded. Meta was complying with 94% of content removal requests from the Israeli government-a compliance rate unmatched for almost any other nation. This led to over 90,000 immediate takedowns and the suppression of tens of millions of posts worldwide. Most chillingly, Israel's requests were fast-tracked through AI systems, bypassing the human review required for other countries. Each censored post then trained Meta's algorithms to target similar content, creating an automated silencing machine.
This system reached its cruelest point with the story of Saleh Aljafarawi, a 28-year-old journalist who spent two years documenting Israel's war on Gaza for 4.5 million Instagram followers. Hours after he was killed by an Israeli-linked gunman in 2025, Meta permanently deleted his account. His life's work-evidence seen by millions-vanished in an instant.
His story is not unique. At the very moment Palestinians needed social media to document war crimes, share evidence, and call for help, Meta's platforms became tools of digital erasure. Content showing Palestinian trauma was removed under vague policies, while violent rhetoric in Hebrew often stayed online.
This was not unforeseen. In 2021, during the Sheikh Jarrah protests, similar censorship sparked global outcry. Meta commissioned an independent audit, which concluded in 2022 that its actions had an "adverse human rights impact" on Palestinians and urged transparency about government takedown requests.
That transparency never came. Instead, the 2025 leaks show the problem grew from bias into a formal, automated partnership with state-sponsored repression.
The genocide in Gaza is among the most documented atrocities in modern history-and also the most aggressively erased online. When platforms designed for connection become tools of censorship, preserving truth becomes an act of resistance.
Initiatives like Evidence Archived have emerged in response: a global, secure archive that stores and authenticates digital evidence of war crimes on blockchain and secure servers around the world. It exists to ensure that what disappears from Instagram and Facebook survives for justice, history, and accountability.
The genocide in Gaza is being documented - and deleted - in real time. Posts vanish, accounts are silenced, and critical evidence disappears, threatening justice and historical truth.
Evidence Archived exists to stop that erasure. Donate here.
Our $100,000 Year-End Drive supports Phase 1: The Gaza Archive - a secure, permanent system preserving eyewitness footage, verified humanitarian evidence, and legally usable documentation across global servers and blockchain storage.
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