Why Facebook took down the '3rd Intifada' page, calling on people to launch a Third Palestinian intifada against Israel.
Richard Allen, Facebook’s director of policy for Europe, the Middle East and Asia:
“Our reviewers felt that the content of the Page began as a call for peaceful protest, even though the term Intifada has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence. Under these conditions a Page of this nature would normally be permitted to remain on Facebook.
“However, after the publicity of the Page more comments deteriorated to direct calls for violence. Eventually, the administrators also participated in these calls .After administrators of the page received repeated warnings about posts that violated our policies, we removed the Page yesterday.”
