People have used the application ranking to reject the company’s policies in the past, but ongoing campaigns can carry out significant damage. NBC news has learned that Pro-Palestinian activists succeed in the campaign to throw Facebook rankings on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store through a review of one star “Thousands”. Many participants accused Facebook silencing Palestine when they talked about the escalation of violence recently with Israel.
Social networks take campaigns very seriously, according to NBC message board info obtained. It is marked as a “severity 1” problem, or right under a full site outage. A Senior Facebook engineer reportedly said that users felt they were “censored” and were pressed.
However, however, the store operator does not always intervene. Facebook employees claim that Apple refused to attract one star review. It is not clear how Google responds.
We have asked for Apple and Google comments. Facebook rejects the allegations of sensors in a statement to NBC, claiming that the policy gives “everyone’s voice” and that he applies them regardless of trust. Andy Stone spokesman pointed to a team that “monitors strictly” the situation of Israel-Palestine to attract dangerous content and correct law enforcement errors.
It won’t always lead Facebook to change the approach. However, it is important that this campaign has an effect on the first place – and the host App Store might come out of the commotion. Not surprisingly if more campaigns like this appear in the future, even if they ultimately do not lead to the company’s actions.