The @eye.on.palestine account unavailable to view after ‘signs of compromise’ were detected
A popular Instagram account among Palestine supporters with more than 6 million followers, @eye.on.palestine has been unavailable to view since Wednesday night. The backup account was also unavailable to view. Both accounts were still unavailable at lunchtime on Thursday.and is one of the leading Instagram accounts sharing experiences of Palestinian people living under Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.
This is not the first time the account has been banned. Last year the account was temporarily suspended for “not following” community guidelines though the account was later reinstated. Meta said: “These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to make sure they have access.”Palestinian user profiles
, which it said was caused by a bug. The issue arose when users translated bios that had the word “Palestinian” written in English on their profile, the Palestinian flag emoji and the wordwritten in Arabic, which would be auto-translated to English to read: “Praise be to God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom.”“We fixed a problem that briefly caused inappropriate Arabic translations in some of our products. We sincerely apologise that this happened,” the spokesperson said.
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