Facebook hosts Israeli ads promoting illegal activity
Professor Neve Gordon appeared in a YouTube Short from Al Jazeera English commenting on Facebook's advertising activity and practices.
An investigation by Al Jazeera found more than 100 paid adverts on Facebook promoting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which, according to international law, are illegal. The investigation also found that Meta platformed fundraising ads from Israeli military units in Gaza calling for weapons and equipment. This could contradict their own guidelines that ban ads from promoting the use or sale of munitions.
Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London, said: "Facebook is interested in the money rather than criminal activity and wants the ads, and therefore has not coded its algorithms in a way that will spot [them]..."
Watch the full Al Jazeera English short on YouTube.