Palestinian Social Media Faced Challenges and Difficulties During 2020

Social media specialist Saed Hassunah described 2020 as a year of rapid acceleration and a sustained shift to cloud-based synchronous communication, facilitating contact among professionals and entrepreneurs wherever they were. In Palestine, he said, restrictions on Palestinian content and narratives dominated through coordination between social media companies and the occupation government, while normalisation and the “Deal of the Century” dominated events. He told Palestine Today that new media had established its place in communication but was still not a replacement for traditional media, despite its advantages and the gaps it filled…