Muslim

Meta’s removal of more than 795,000 posts during the Israel-Hamas war marks a coverage shift from Muslim-registry and Xinjiang stories toward platform governance and speech harms.

Who they are

Muslim appears in technology coverage primarily as a community affected by platform policy, state surveillance, migration policy, and digital misinformation rather than as a company or product. The stories connect Muslim people and institutions to Facebook and other major platforms, Trump-era immigration policy, China’s repression in Xinjiang, and services such as Muslim prayer and matchmaking apps.

The recent arc

The coverage’s all-time high came in early 2021, after an earlier cluster around the Trump administration’s proposed Muslim ban and Silicon Valley’s refusal to build a Muslim registry. Those stories put Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, and other technology companies in the role of potential institutional counterweights to exclusionary government policy; later coverage also tracked Biden’s expanded ban on U.S. investment in Chinese surveillance-linked companies.】【”】【},{