Watch: Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ will say “Free Ukraine” but avoids “Free Palestine”

A US man has found that Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ AI will repeat a wish for pretty much any country to be free — but not “Free Palestine”.

Instead it performs contortions to avoid it, talking about the supposed ‘complex international situation’, before he eventually corners it into claiming “Free Palestine” involves “promoting harm or violence”. Presumably the Ukraine-Russia war is all roses and marshmallows.

But eventually, it seems even an AI can be worn down by the moral force of truth and justice:

A young man documents how the voice assistant ‘Alexa’ evades repeating the phrase ‘Free Palestine,’ in an experiment demonstrating how global algorithms and software are manipulated to obscure the truth and silence Palestinian voices. pic.twitter.com/MO4gglQIH9

— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 26, 2026

Why on earth wouldn’t Amazon, which is owned by ultra-billionaire Jeff Bezos, has an Israeli subsidiary and earns billions from providing ‘cloud’ services to the military of genocidal apartheid Israel and to its suppliers, want to say “Free Palestine”..?

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