Meta’s recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that’s been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza.
This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic!
More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli government scheme that allows non-Israelis to volunteer for the Israeli army.
Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.
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Some of the former Israeli spies now working for Meta spent significant amounts of time in Unit 8200, in some cases jumping straight from the IDF to Meta. Guy Shenkerman, for example, spent over a decade in Israel’s spy unit before moving to the US to join Meta in the summer of 2022. Miki Rothschild, a vice president of product management at Meta’s Sunnydale campus, spent three years during the second intifada as a commander of the IDF’s Moran Squad which controls long range missile strikes. Maksim Shmukler who works for Meta in Menlo Park and has also worked for Google and Apple, spent six and half years in Unit 8200 before moving to Texas.
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