Widespread participation in boycott against Facebook

The boycott campaign against Facebook on Sunday received a widespread response from social media users in parallel with active participation on the Twitter hashtag page #fbcensorspalestine.

Although the campaign was intended to last for two hours, scores of Facebook users have stopped to use their pages for a long time and contributed to making the hashtag #fbcensorspalestine a trending topic on Twitter.

The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) also took part in the campaign and stopped publishing any news content on its Facebook page.

The campaign was launched after Facebook deleted the accounts of several Palestinian journalists, activists, and media centers in compliance with a previous deal with the Israeli government to rein in content advocating resistance activities.

The campaign seems to have paid off after Facebook apologized yesterday for disabling Palestinian accounts.

In a related context, the Israeli occupation authority has announced it will hold trials against 145 Palestinian social media activists for their Facebook postings.