Meta Expands Policy to Remove More Posts Attacking ‘Zionists’
Company will pull down ‘Zionist’ posts when used generally to threaten Jewish people.
Use of the term “Zionists” on Meta’s services was more formally reviewed over the last several months.
Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/BloombergFacebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will start removing more posts that attack “Zionists” when the term is used to represent Jewish people or Israelis more generally.
Meta usually removes posts that attack a person based on a “protected characteristic,” such as their race, nationality or religion, though political affiliation doesn’t fall into that protected class. While Zionism is considered by many to be a political movement to establish a formal Jewish state in the Middle East, the company said that people are also using the term “Zionist” to refer to Jewish or Israeli people more broadly.