Meta downplays concerns by Australia’s online safety regulator it is censoring pro-Palestinian content

Company says there was ‘briefly’ a problem with ‘inappropriate Arabic translations’

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Meta has downplayed concerns from Australia’s online safety regulator that Facebook and Instagram censored Palestinian voices, despite ongoing concern that users are still being restricted.

In October, just weeks after the Israel-Gaza conflict commenced, the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, wrote to Meta passing on concerns from Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi over Guardian Australia’s report Instagram was inserting the word “terrorist” into the profile bios of some Palestinian users.

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