Palestinian Digital Rights Are Under Attack With Nidaa Basoumi At RightsCon 2025

Not only are Palestinians facing bombing on the ground from Israel’s genocide but their digital rights are being severely attacked too.

Even before Oct. 7, social media platforms such as Meta have been silencing Palestinian voices, banning and censoring their accounts, and the genocide has only worsened the situation, with big tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon selling technology to the Israeli military to kill Palestinians in Gaza and surveil them in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Nidaa Bassoumi media coordinator of Sada Social, a Palestinian digital rights project, spoke to Almost at RightsCon 2025 about just how extensive the effects of big tech’s actions are on Palestinians’ everyday lives.

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