Thread by @gnuseibeh

In 2019, we successfully campaigned to have Google remove a Muslim Brotherhood “Euro fatwa app”, for anti Semitism and other incitement including giving a “fatwa” allowing Muslims in the British army to disobey orders, etc. Here is the story thetimes.co.uk/article/muslim…

A few months later, Google reinstated the app after the MB-affiliated developed changed the introduction. Things like disobeying army orders remained. It then become in the top 100 downloads in Europe thenationalnews.com/world/europe/r…

British, French, German and Irish officials condemned the app. “The app is a building block in the process of radicalisation," Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution, the country's domestic intelligence agency, said”. But app is still widely available

For Google now to suspend Parler and allow a radicalisation tool to be downloaded freely is just beyond acceptable. They can hate Trump as much as they want but this is now deep censorship on a scale seen in dictatorships.

Unfortunately much of the conventional media won’t go against social media giants- they need their ads, mainstream journalists rely on social media (and in the process eat away inadvertently at their own media platforms)...media companies should stand up to social media