Partiality of social media platforms, accounts reporting Gaza situation blocked

Gaza: Social media platforms have blocked the social media accounts of a Palestinian journalist who was reporting on the innocent children and Palestinians who were victims of Israeli army’s brutal bombing in Gaza, showing their bias towards the Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza had been reporting moment by moment situation after the Israeli bombardment on Gaza.

On social media platform X, a user named Jalal shared a video of a Palestinian journalist in his post writing that two hours ago Motaz Azaiza posted this video when he was trying to save children who were victims of Palestinian bombing.

Fatima Bhutto also condemned the blocking of Palestinian journalist's social media accounts. She said that Motaz Azaiza is an extraordinary journalist but it is very scary that the world is watching and still imposing restrictions.

He is extraordinary. And it’s is terrifying that the world is seeing this and sanctioning it https://t.co/7SEVtmxM42

— fatima bhutto (@fbhutto) October 22, 2023

Earlier, Instagram blocked the account of renowned American journalist Azmat Khan, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Investigative Reporting, for posting a story related to the Gaza war.

US female journalist Azmat Khan said that after posting a story about the Gaza war on social media platform Instagram, her account was shadow banned— that is her account was blocked without informing her.

In her post on social networking website X, Azmat said that many of her colleagues and journalists' social media accounts are also being shadow banned.

Azmat Khan added that this is an unprecedented attack on reliable journalism and free flow of information.