Facebook parent Meta employees write letter to Mark Zuckerberg on 'censoring’ Palestine-related posts

A group of Meta employees has reportedly criticised the company’s internal and external “censorship” of any show of support for Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

In an open letter published this week, some employees have accused the company of removing “any open support for our Palestinian colleagues or the millions facing a humanitarian crisis in Palestine” on company forums such as Workplace, according to Business Insider.

The employees claim that the company deleted internal posts supporting Palestinians. The employees accused Meta of censoring any dissent and demanded that the deletions of internal posts stop.

“While we loudly display ‘Your voice is valued,’ CEE is used as a guise to delete dissenting opinions and silence employees that may simply be seeking solace from their co-workers or raising awareness about building safer products,” the letter reads.

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They also claimed that employee resource groups for Muslims and Palestinians at Meta had been subject to “so much censorship that an employee proposed just deleting the ERG altogether instead of giving the illusion that we can freely build community at Meta, it said as reported by Business Insider.

The Israel-Hamas war was started by the Oct. 7 raid into southern Israel in which terrorists killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians and abducted around 250 hostages. Hamas is believed to still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.

Since then, Israel’s campaign in Gaza has wreaked vast destruction and brought a humanitarian disaster, with several hundred thousand Palestinians in northern Gaza facing imminent famine, according to the UN report.

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The “productive basis of the economy has been destroyed” and poverty is rising sharply among Palestinians, according to the report released Thursday by the United Nations Development Program and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.