The word ‘Shaheed’ will no longer be banned on Meta as a year-long investigation revealed how it compromised free speech.
For the past few years, when Instagram and Facebook users published a post mentioning the word"Shaheed" in their posts, their phone screens lit up with a swift notification: a warning that their content was removed for violating community standards. The ban was so restrictive that ‘Shaheed' ended up accounting for the largest number of content removals on the company's platforms as a single word or phrase.
Meta previously categorised any use of"shaheed" in reference to individuals it deemed"dangerous" as a violation of its guidelines, interpreting it as an endorsement for violence. The criteria for designating individuals as dangerous, however, has remained unclear. “Currently, we treat the word “shaheed” as explicit praise when used in reference to a designated individual, and we remove this content when we’re aware of it. We do not remove the word"shaheed" on its own or when used to reference non-designated individuals,” the website of the company’s Transparency Center read.
In the context of Israel’s war on Palestine’s Gaza, the term has often been used to refer to Palestinians or supporters of the Palestinian cause who have been killed, including resistance fighters as well as unarmed women and children which make up the majority of those killed by Israel.
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