Meta apologizes for deleting Malaysia’s PM posts from Haniyeh
On Tuesday 6th of August 2024, Tech company Meta expressed sadness for eliminating social media updates from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim over the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas. The apology was issued the day after Anwar’s office called Meta officials to inquire as to why the leader’s messages regarding Haniyeh’s passing had been deleted from (Facebook and Instagram). On the other side the parent company of the (2) well-known social media networks is called Meta. In an email to AFP, Meta stated, (We apologize for a technical error where posts from the Prime Minister’s Facebook and Instagram Pages were removed). Since then, the content has been updated with the appropriate remarkable label.
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Israel, which has not immediately commented on the incident, is suspected of carrying out the strike that killed the senior head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Wednesday 31st of August in Tehran, the capital of Iran. One of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s posts featured a video of the premier expressing his sympathies over the phone with a Hamas official. Anwar published a letter from Meta on Instagram stating that the postings had been removed due to their connection with harmful persons and organizations.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office sought an apology from the tech giant, calling Meta’s removal of the messages a transparent restriction of free freedom. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar, who had visited Haniyeh in Qatar in May, has justified Malaysia’s connections to the Palestinian terrorist organization supported by Iran, which on the 7th of October carried out a deadly strike against Israel, triggering the Gaza War. Upon a March visit to Germany, Anwar highlighted that Malaysia had ties to the political branch of Hamas rather than its armed branch.
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