Facebook may be at the top of the Social Networking category in the Apple App Store, but that does not necessarily mean that people are happy with it. They just download the application.
Activists supporting Palestine are conducting a coordinated campaign to reduce the ranking of Facebook mobile applications in Apple and Google Stores.
The campaign, which observed for the first time by NBC News, and calls on netizens to give negative feedback to Facebook to protest the company's censorship of Palestinian accounts and posts on the social networking platform.
It seems that the activists' efforts have paid off, since at the moment, Facebook has a rating of 2,3 / 5,0 stars in App Store, and 2,4 / 5,0 stars at Google Play.
Many of the reviews accuse Facebook of censoring Palestinian posts and including hashtags such as #FreePalestine and #GazaUnderAttack.
The Facebook team reportedly takes this issue very seriously - internally they have labeled it as "SEV1" or "seriousness 1", which describes a very serious high-priority issue on the site.
The only problem type that has a higher priority than this is “SEV0”, which is used when o website is offline.
MrfaceFacebook CEO Andy Stone told NBC News that the platform's policies are "designed to give everyone a voice" and that Facebook applies them equally regardless of a user's personal beliefs. He continued:
We have a dedicated team, which includes speakers of Arabic and Hebrew, and closely monitors the situation to ensure that we remove harmful content while dealing with enforcement errors as soon as possible.
Facebook apparently contacted Apple to remove the negative reviews in the App Store, but its request was rejected.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to find a reason to be frustrated with Facebook anymore. For example, despite his efforts to stop its spread misinformations about COVID-19, the platform is still misinforming.
And there are no serious misinformation issues from Facebook, it seems that you still have reason to be misled.
In early May, Facebook he published a notice claiming that tracking is keeping them services of free after Apple's privacy updates with iOS 14.5 indirectly cut off much of its revenue. Thousands of users took to Twitter and Reddit to voice their displeasure at Facebook's "bullying" tactics.
Facebook can be an example of the phrase "every publicity is good publicity". It is a platform that many seem to hate, however, everyone continues to use it.
