Calls for peace by Pope who has condemned Israel’s genocide reach less than 1% of Pontiff’s 18m followers
Figures from the Pope’s recent social media posts about Gaza suggest that Pope Francis – an outspoken critic of Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians who has described its actions as terrorism – is being ‘shadowbanned’ to restrict the number of people who see his comments.
Shadowbanning is a form of hidden censorship practised by social media companies in which posts are shown onto to very few of the platform’s users. Observers have pointed out that the Pontiff’s ‘traffic’ on his Twitter/X posts represents less than one percent of his eighteen million followers on the platform.
A post shown above calling for peace, nine hours old at the time of writing, has been seen by fewer than 160,000 people, 0.9% of the total. Others have fared even worse – a post in which Francis calls for prayer for refugees and respect for their rights, three days old at the time of writing, has received only 143,000 views:
Posts from New Year’s Day, even older, calling for an end to war and respect for the lives of all people, have similarly sparse views. The phenomenon goes back months, in stark contrast to the millions of views of many of his posts before the Gaza genocide:
Before the genocide, even the less widely-read posts on the Pope’s account would receive half a million views and much higher levels of interaction than 2022 or 2023, before the apparent shadowban took effect.
Social media platforms and western governments have waged war on the reach and freedom of anti-genocide campaigners, with the UK government of genocide-denier Keir Starmer criminalising and harassing even journalists and activists who dare tell the truth about Israel’s actions, many of them Jewish. It seems even being regarded as the representative of God himself in the eyes of around 1.4 billion Roman Catholics is no guarantee of escaping this censorship.
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I heard the Pope is being advised to visit Gaza. He should go for it. If the Israeli state tries to stop him, Twitter/X wouldn’t be able to hide THAT news from ANYbody!
Who would have thought, the protectors of The Official Narrative (TON) are treating the occupant of the Vatican as an “antisemite” (TM) and, by extension, the entire Catholic Faith.
Meanwhile…….
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israeli-lawmakers-demand-military-destroy-all-food-and-energy-resources-in-gaza/
Apparently the Holocaust is not proceeding fast enough for some of the Genocidal Maniacs posing as representative human beings:
“On December 31, eight Israeli government coalition lawmakers on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee sent a letter to Defense Minister Israel Katz, urging him to intensify the siege of Gaza – not just in the north, but across the territory.
Referring to the north, where Israel is conducting a tight siege and ethnic cleansing campaign, they bemoan that “the IDF does not regard, as is custom in international law and all western armies, those who remain as enemies”. In other words, they suggest shooting everyone who is there, after the so-called “humanitarian evacuation” is supposedly complete. This is the euphemism for the ethnic cleansing campaign.
They demand three basic points of action, after the “encirclement and evacuation of the population:”
Remote elimination of all energy sources, that is fuel, solar panels and any relevant means (pipes, cables, generators etc.)
Elimination of all food sources including warehouses, water and all relevant means (water pumps etc.)
Remote elimination of anyone who moves in the area and does not exit with a white flag during the days of the effective siege.
“After these actions and the days of siege upon those who remain, IDF must enter gradually and conduct a full cleansing of the enemy nests.”
The “remote elimination” apparently means the usage of aerial bombings without a physical presence on the ground.”
At the present rate it will not be too long before there are no Palestinians left on the planet – and, most likely (given the murderous lust for a greater Judea from the Euphrates to the Nile on the part of the Zionist maniacs), Arabs per se – unless someone steps in and forcibly stops these parasitic fascists and their handlers.
Oh there’ll still be Palestinians on the planet, just not in Palestine. Or conceivably the whole Middle East. There is a Palestinian diaspora – for instance, I hear there’s quite a Palestinian community in Chile!
These maniacs will just send Mossad to eliminate them all and/or get other Western three letter agencies and their tame jihadist head choppers to finish the extermination.