Facebook censured the official page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for warning potential voters: Arabs "want to destroy us all," The Guardian reported.
The automated chat on the page run by Netanyahu's Likud Party was suspended by Facebook for 24 hours for violation of its "hate speech policy," according to the report.
"After careful review of the Likud campaign's bot activities, we found a violation of our hate speech policy," Facebook said in a statement, per The Guardian. "Should there be any additional violations, we will continue to take appropriate action."
Netanyahu is campaigning for re-election Sept. 17 and the Likud-run bot sought to appeal to far-right religious and nationalist voters fearing the political influence of Palestinian citizens in Israel.
The message deemed "hate speech" campaigned for "a rightwing policy of a Jewish state, security, and a strong Israel" and warned visitors "a secular left-wing weak government that relies on Arabs who want to destroy us all — women, children, and men."
Netanyahu said Thursday he did not partake in furnishing the message that was identified by a "volunteer" of the Likud Party having sent it, according to the report.
The Israeli population is about 20% Palestinian families who remained after the war that created Israel in 1948.
Netanyahu has long campaigned against Arab voters in Israel for seeking a Palestinian state and even saying this year, per the report: "Israel is not a state of all its citizens . . . Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it."
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