Abstract Since the start of the ongoing war in Gaza, debates have intensified about social media platforms’ bias in moderating content related to Palestinians. These debates draw attention to platforms’ political role in shaping content visibility and reach and highlight algorithmic power imbalances. Pro‑Palestinian activists and ordinary users have formulated algorithmic imaginaries and folk theories about how moderation works, and they have developed a repertoire of resistance aimed at achieving visibility despite perceived bias. Through digital ethnography and expert interviews, we investigate the moderation of Arabic‑language pro‑Palestinian content on Meta’s Facebook. By connecting users’ imaginaries and practices of resistance to expert knowledge, we develop a typology of algorithmic and non‑algorithmic resistance that extends the Palestinian context in the era of platform power. The article contributes to the literature on human interaction with social media algorithms in the Arab context within asymmetric frameworks, moving beyond a narrow linguistic focus.
Farag et al. (Sun,) studied this question.