Were you silent or were you silenced?

About this episode

Lara discusses her work on the Gaza Genocide while Michael shares his experience of being banned from Instagram.

Lara and Michael sit down separately this week. Lara reads from her submission on the political economy of the Gaza Genocide prepared as part of her work for the Gaza People's Tribunal's Sarajevo session and Michael talks about being digitally disappeared from Instagram by one of Meta's main executives who used to work for the Israeli government as part of an application-wide sweep of several accounts advocating for Palestinian rights.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lara, Michael

Topics covered

• Gaza Genocide
• digital censorship
• Palestinian rights
• political economy
• social media

Keywords

• Gaza
• Genocide
• Instagram
• Meta
• Palestinian rights
• censorship
• political economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gaza People's Tribunal, Meta, Israeli government

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