A new Twitter hire responsible for curating news coverage of the Middle East and North Africa has apologised for tweets harshly critical of Israel made in 2010 and 2011 after they generated controversy on social media Monday. Jassem’s posts come amid ongoing questions about objectivity in social media news coverage, a major source of news in the United States and across the globe. According to a recent Pew survey, about half of Americans get some of their news via social media. Curation teams “find and highlight great Tweets,” according to Twitter. The incident follows other recent controversies in which public-facing employees have attracted scrutiny and sometimes backlash for social media posts about Israel.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 11, 2021 16:00 UTC