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First on FOX – At least one dozen Republican state attorney generals across the United States Meta Platform Chief Justice Jennifer Newsted, demanding answers on the company’s actions on October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel.
“The 12 attorney generals signed are writing on October 7, 2023 to express serious concern about recent allegations of Meta’s actions following the massacre and terrorist attacks in Israel,” a letter sent to Meta one day after the second anniversary of the attack said.
Attorney General We ask NewStead to provide Meta’s latest policy on portrayals of violence and incitement, as well as other related policies. Newstead is being asked to explain the “remedial efforts, if any,” Meta made after the October 7 attack. Additionally, the Attorney General asked Newsted to detail other steps that Meta took to prevent illegal violence from appearing on the platform.
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Hamas armed wing, the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam brigade, will destroy Israeli military tanks in Gaza city, Gaza city on October 7, 2023. (Hani Alshaer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The Attorney General asked Newsted to provide a response to the letter by November 10, 2025.
Those who signed the letter include South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Byrd, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, Florida Attorney General James Usmier, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, and Texas Attorney General Kenpaxton.
Meta’s current policy – It has been changed multiple times since the attack – “It removes the threat of violence against a variety of targets, defines the threat of violence as a “statement or visual that represents a call to violence against an intention, desire, or target,” and threats can be expressed in various types of statements, such as statements of intent, action, call to advocacy, hope, suction statement and expression of conditions.
Additionally, Meta says on its website that users protect users from portrayals of “inducing or adductions” or “high or medium-term violence.”
“Hamas is banned from our platform and we will remove and praise content that supports and praises them on October 7th,” a Meta spokesman said in a statement to the Fox Business. “Following the attack, we formed a passionate team around the clock to address and remove content that violates our policy, but we denounced Hamas and made the platform available to use to raise awareness of victims and hostages still held in Gaza.”
The victim’s family on October 7th is complaining of Meta, who is allegedly playing a role in the distribution of images and videos of the atrocities. (Nikolas Kokovlis / Nurphoto byotty Images / Getty Images)
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A Meta spokesman also said the company has set up a special operations centre after the fact that it includes fluent Hebrew and Arabic speakers that can monitor the situation in real time, allowing sensitive content to be removed more quickly. A spokesperson said in the three days after the attack, the company marked more than 795,000 content as violating.
The letter comes after the family Victims of October 7th It filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Meta, claiming its platform played a role in the distribution of videos showing atrocities.
The lawsuit alleges that the victim’s loved ones deliberately enabled the distribution of live and recorded videos of atrocities such as murder and hostage take. According to CTECHIsraeli technology news outlet. The plaintiffs say this has transformed Facebook and Instagram into “an integral part of the terrorist attacks against Israel.”
“If Plaintiff-Victim’s allegations are true, it’s difficult to see how Meta meets its own standards,” the Attorney General wrote in a letter to Newsted.
According to CTECH, one of the plaintiffs was Mol Beider, who watched a horrifying video of the murder on Facebook after trying to deliver it to her on Facebook. After the outlet didn’t reach Bracha Levinson, his grandmother, Kibbutz Nir Oz resident Baider tried to answer social media. She instead found violent videos on the platform.
Photos taken in the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 show vehicles burned out outside a residential building that was hit by a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
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“For hours, in real time, for a long time, horrific documentation from the attack (to put it gently) spread, and innocent civilians – children, elderly people, women and men, were subjected to unbearable atrocities to explain even on paper,” the plaintiff’s lawyer wrote.
The Idan family, also included in the lawsuit, alleges that the murder of 22-year-old Mayan Idan and the invitation of his father, Tsachi. Live streaming on FacebookCtech noted that Taschi was later killed prisoner.
Fox Business has requested comment from the law firm representing the plaintiffs.
