A Meta staffer has publicly complained the social media giant placed her under investigation for possible violations of its employee policy after she raised concerns internally about the alleged censorship of pro-Palestinian views by the company.
In a video posted to her Instagram page, a New York-based data scientist said that she had garnered about 450 signatures in half a day from fellow staffers for a letter she published asking management for acknowledgment of Palestinian lives lost and support for Palestinian colleagues in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
The employee had also demanded “transparent action for internal and external censorship” on its platforms in the letter, she said, after Meta had faced criticism from some politicians and human rights groups that its content moderation systems had allegedly been suppressing pro-Palestine voices. “Internally, we have been trying to raise these concerns and these alarms,” she said in an Instagram video posted under the handle Saimaday. Meta owns Instagram and Facebook.