Facebook's new global 'Oversight Board', adjudicating on who has access to major social media platforms, includes Emi Palmor, an Israeli official who masterminded the country's digital spying on, and silencing of, Palestinians.

I'll say it again: if there are dissident writers you value, make sure you subscribe to their site, or bookmark and regularly visit their home page. Don't simply rely on social media. We are being gradually disappeared - and it's been going on for some time, as Gareth Porter explains.