{"id":30033,"date":"2024-08-07T18:07:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30033"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:07:48","slug":"meta-apologizes-for-removal-of-malaysian-pms-posts-on-hamas-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/meta-apologizes-for-removal-of-malaysian-pms-posts-on-hamas-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Apologizes for Removal of Malaysian PM\u2019s Posts on Hamas Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms apologized on Tuesday for the removal of content from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram accounts related to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last week.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia had asked Meta for an explanation after the posts expressing condolences over Haniyeh&#8217;s death were removed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologise for an operational error where content from the Prime Minister\u2019s Facebook and Instagram Pages were removed, and the content has since been restored with the correct newsworthy label,&#8221; a Meta spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed response to questions.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s communications minister and members of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office had met Meta representatives on Monday to seek an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Prime Minister&#8217;s Office views Meta&#8217;s actions as discriminatory, unjust, and a blatant suppression of free expression,&#8221; the office said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Meta Platforms apologized on Tuesday for the removal of content from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram accounts related to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh last week. Malaysia had asked Meta for an explanation after the posts expressing condolences over Haniyeh&#8217;s death were removed. &#8220;We apologise for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30035,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30033\/revisions\/30035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}