Meta bans Iran’s Supreme Leader from Facebook and Instagram for advocating to ‘erase Israel
OAN’s Elizabeth Volberding
11:16 AM – Monday, February 12, 2024
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Social Media Accounts Restricted by Meta
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has taken action against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei by restricting his Facebook and Instagram accounts. This decision was made due to Khamenei’s repeated violations of policies targeting potentially dangerous individuals and groups.
Initially reported by the New York Post, Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has permanently restricted Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, from its platforms.
According to the company, Khamenei’s repeated calls to “wipe Israel off the map” and his description of Israel as a “cancerous tumor” that will be “uprooted and destroyed” prompted this decision.
Khamenei’s call to “wipe Israel off the map” ultimately is what caused the permanent suspension, according to NYT.
Khamenei’s official Facebook page and his Persian and English-language Instagram accounts, with a combined following of over 5 million, were deleted due to their violation of Meta’s policies against potentially dangerous individuals and organizations.
According to Meta, Khamenei’s remarks were designated as “hate speech,” which is why the ban was appropriate.
The despot in Iran has long used provocative speech against Israel, whom it regards as its “top adversary.”
Khamenei said on X (Twitter) in October of last year that “the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region,” in response to the attacks on Israel by Hamas that killed over 1,000 people.
Although Khamenei has not yet been banned by X, pro-Israel organizations have been pushing several social media companies to remove his accounts due to his frequent calls for violence.
Although Iran prohibits the use of Facebook, Instagram, and X, Khamenei kept up his accounts on these social media sites in order to connect with people internationally.
Khamenei was removed by Meta after he initially called for Israel’s destruction several years ago. Although social media companies are now more aggressively enforcing policies against state-supported hate speech, experts wonder why this case wasn’t handled sooner.
Israeli authorities and Jewish organizations have welcomed Khamenei’s permanent restriction as a long-overdue measure to stop harmful propaganda spreading across social media.
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