The British Economist magazine published a report saying that Facebook recently started to defer to the will of Arab dictators and press its users in the region who began to feel that its platform was no longer the appropriate site to make their voices heard by their governments.
The magazine said that in an area dominated by tyranny, Facebook claims to provide the highest possible level of freedom of expression.
This attracted a large number of users in the region, especially in the Gulf region, where Facebook has more users than anywhere in the world "in proportion to the population", and the platform has become the main source of news for many Arabs, and some even refer Credit for the 2011 Arab Spring protests to Facebook.
But since this platform became available to all people in 2012, Facebook has become more sensitive to the desire of rulers who allow it to reach the public, and less hospitality for activists.
In recent months, Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts for users from Tunisia to Iran, and has deleted hundreds of thousands of messages.
The report cites an example of one of the cases of removal from Syria that belonged to the architect Saret Al-Bitar in the war-torn city of Idlib, as the company sent a message, which the report described as destroyed.
"Your account has been permanently disabled for not following the Facebook community criteria, and unfortunately we will not be able to reactivate it for any reason," says the social media giant message.
Fourteen years of family photos, memories of al-Bitar and his memoirs of the civil war in Syria were surveyed, along with his list of 30,000 followers, although he remained cautious in his writing on the podium, as he did not name the dead of opponents of the Syrian regime as "martyrs" or published what incites to Violence.
Al-Bitar suspects that Facebook silenced him because he commemorated a famous Syrian soccer star who took up arms, and was killed several months later by the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Marwa Fatafta, of the Access Now group - a global lobbying group - says many people say Facebook is no longer a platform they can use to hold the powerful to account.
The magazine report explains these practices from Facebook in part because of the large size of the platform's 2.7 billion users, many of whom write in languages other than English, and their posts are examined to identify hate speech and incitement, and the number of those doing this examination is 15 thousand and they find great difficulties in completing the examination in a fair manner, As most of them do not know Arabic and its dialects, so the company relies on automated filters that make mistakes because it suffices to search for words that have been marked, but cannot discover cultural differences or ironic phrases, and therefore we find Facebook rarely explains the reason for deleting the content.
Tunisian-American human rights lawyer Wafaa Bin Hussein says that although there are a large number of users in developing countries, they are largely excluded from the dialogues.
The report adds that Facebook is bound by US law, which considers some of the major powers in the Middle East to be "terrorist", banning the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and a host of other armed Islamic groups.
Sometimes the US media gives members of these groups time to broadcast, but Facebook has a strict interpretation of the law against terrorist aid and incitement.
The report says that Arab governments have passed laws against cybercrime and "terrorism" to clamp down on social media companies and their users.
Facebook is trying to "comply" with the laws of these countries, as it has opened an office in Dubai to communicate with officials in the region to avoid blocking the platform.
The report adds that governments use forms of pressure that are very sophisticated and accurate, as they threatened to impose a tax on Facebook's internal profits, and many of these governments operate electronic armies to bomb the content on the site, and often complain of opposition groups.
An Israeli-backed watchdog claims to have 15,000 online volunteers from 73 countries to monitor the Facebook platform, and as a result critics say Facebook is examining content that belongs to Palestinians more accurately than publications that belong to Israelis.
In an attempt to restore user confidence, Facebook recently deleted hundreds of fake accounts promoted by Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt. Last May, the company unveiled a new oversight board that would be a "Supreme Court" that would hear appeals against platform decisions and monitor government websites in search of incitement.
Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner - one of two members of the Board of Directors of this court from the Middle East - says that the official terrorist classifications will not necessarily be binding on us, especially when they come from authoritarian governments that misuse "terrorism" to abuse opponents .