How Meta restricted news in Palestinian territories | BBC News (youtube.com)
In the first comprehensive data analysis by territory since the start of the recent Gaza fighting. Engagement was around 0.07. After the Hamas attack and Israeli counter, engagment on the same pages dropped 80% to 0.015%. PalestineTV's viewers dropped 60% after Oct7. ‘Shadowbanned.’ Facebook doesn't use that word but does ‘demote users or Pages' if they post things the company deems to be ‘problematic or low quality.’
Some say the reduced reach was due to violent content or content that contributes to hatespeech, so the researchers analyzed similar but Israeli info, and they were not impacted negatively, and ‘in fact their engagement went up.’
Some said it was because power outages in Gaza meant less Palestinians were engaging, but the researchers said Gaza residents are less than 20% of the Pages audience.
The researchers said it was the first time since Oct7 there was evidence that ‘news organizations based in Palestinian territories faced stricter moderation from Facebook.’
One can imagine the type of conversations Trump and Zuckerberg had at that recent dinner. 
