Jassem first earned scrunity from pro-Israel groups early Monday after announcing her new role as editorial curation lead for the MENA region. According to a recent Pew survey, about half of Americans get some of their news via social media. While Twitter’s editorial curation teams do not produce original reporting, they are responsible for creating Twitter “Moments,” or aggregations of news stories from a particular region or event. Israel War Room tweeted: “Hey, @Twitter, why did your new MENA Editorial Curation Lead not list Israel alongside its Middle Eastern neighbors? Earlier this year, the Associated Press fired reporter Emily Wilder for tweets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the news organization said violated its social media policy on bias.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 02, 2021 05:13 UTC