Jakarta (MidLand) – Ferras Hamad, a former Meta employee, has filed a lawsuit against the company for alleged discrimination and prejudice against the Palestinian community.
In an Engadget report on Friday, Ferras highlighted the company’s procedures for managing content restrictions related to the Gaza conflict that have prevented it from appearing in feeds and search functionality.
One of the cases he revealed involved a short video showing destroyed buildings in Gaza that led to Ferras’ dismissal in February 2024.
Ferras discovered that a video made by Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza was classified by Instagram as pornographic content.
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While handling the video, Ferras received conflicting reports from other employees regarding his authority to resolve the matter. A month after the incident, Ferras received notification that he was the subject of an investigation.
Ferras lodged a protest against the internal discrimination he suffered, but was fired a few days later. The reason he was fired was that Ferras was believed to have violated a policy that prohibits employees from handling issues involving user accounts belonging to someone who knows him personally.
Ferras, an American citizen of Palestinian origin, admitted that he did not recognize Azaiza.
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In the legal complaint filed, Hamad also accused the tech company of deleting internal communications between its employees discussing the deaths of relatives in Gaza.
Additionally, employees who use the Palestinian flag emoji will be investigated by the company. Meanwhile, employees who uploaded the Israeli and Ukrainian flags did not receive similar threats from the company.
It is known that Meta has been accused of limiting posts in support of Palestine on his social networking platform.
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Last year, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote to Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg informing him that some Instagram users were accusing the company of hiding posts about conditions in the Gaza conflict area.
Meta’s oversight board said last year that the company’s systems mistakenly removed video posts on Instagram showing the impact of the attack on Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s ground offensive.
They recently opened an investigation to look into a case involving a Facebook post that used the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
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