{"id":257788,"date":"2021-05-24T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pro-palestine-activists-sink-facebook-app-store-ratings\/"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:29:51","slug":"pro-palestine-activists-sink-facebook-app-store-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pro-palestine-activists-sink-facebook-app-store-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pro-Palestine activists sink Facebook app store ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pro-Palestine activists sink Facebook<\/a> app<\/a> store ratings<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Pro-Palestinian activists claim that Facebook is censoring their posts \u2014 and are sinking the social network\u2019s app store ratings by leaving one-star reviews en masse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The campaign, first reported by NBC News<\/a>, comes amid an ongoing ceasefire agreement that Israel and Hamas brokered on Friday.<\/p>\n

As of Monday morning, Facebook had a 2.4 out of 5-star rating on the Google Play store, down from 4.1 a month ago, according to an archived version of the site. On Apple\u2019s app store, Facebook\u2019s rating has fallen to 2.3 stars from 2.7 stars over the same period of time. The reviews sections on both app stores contain comments condemning the company for allegedly discriminating against pro-Palestinian posts and accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook shouldn\u2019t try to lower our voices,\u201d said Pakistani Twitter user Hamad Rajput, who has helped lead<\/a> the online campaign, in a message to the Post. \u201cWe are raising and chanting the voices to raise awareness for good cause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Facebook is taking the activists seriously, categorizing their campaign as a severe threat, according to NBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cUser trust is dropping considerably with the recent escalations between Israel and Palestine,\u201d said a senior software engineer in an internal message obtained by the outlet. \u201cUsers are feeling that they are being censored, getting limited distribution, and unlimitedly silenced. As a result, our users have started protesting by leaving 1 star reviews.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Facebook, Apple and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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The Pro-Palestinian campaign against Facebook on app stores appears to be persisting despite the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.<\/figcaption>
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Despite Friday\u2019s ceasefire, it appears that the Pro-Palestinian campaigners do not plan to stand down in their campaign against Facebook. <\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook does not support legal social support to religious minorities,\u201d wrote an Apple App Store reviewer on the same day the ceasefire was announced. \u201cFacebook is helping the Israeli government as a demand from the Israel prime minister to take down any content related to the genoside {sic} in Gaza.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Palestinian activists\u2019 complaints echo those of many American conservatives, who also claim that Facebook has a political agenda that leads the company to unfairly censor accounts and posts<\/a>.\u00a0\n <\/div>\n