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Combined with its quite explicit modeling on the U.S. But the Board’s significant power over one of the world’s biggest communicative platforms can’t be denied, as witnessed in its dramatic May decision to uphold Trump’s original ban from the platform. Now, having previously taken tremendous heat over these decisions, up to and including suspending Donald Trump’s account after the Capitol insurrection, Facebook can hope to mostly avoid these business-impeding moral posers by fobbing it off on the FOB. The Board has secure funding from an irrevocable Facebook-financed trust, and has the power to make binding judgements on the giant platform’s content-what posts can stay up despite being controversial, what must be taken down, and what designations will be applied to these posts. states, and the European Commission for practices ranging from privacy violations to to mopping up competitors with mergers, the company is investing urgently to detox its image and steer now-inevitable regulations in a favorable direction.īut the issue of policing political speech has become such a hot button issue that Facebook has taken a relatively dramatic step, officially setting up a nominally independent content-moderating group known as the Oversight Board. Besieged by multiple investigations, antitrust lawsuits, and adverse judgements by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 48 U.S.
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Conduct a full, independent, public audit of content moderation policies with respect to Palestine and a commitment to co-design policies and tools.The coalition reiterates the Board’s recommendations and call on Facebook once again to: Now, Facebook has to listen to the complaints and do the right thing.”Įarlier this year, Access Now along with 16 organizations and over 50 artists, journalists, and human rights defenders launched the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign to demand an end to Facebook’s censorship of Palestinian voices. “The Oversight Board’s decision amplifies the calls that civil society has been putting forward. While we welcome this decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board, it speaks volumes on Facebook’s policies in the MENA region, and raises a number of serious red flags,” said Kassem Mnejja, MENA Campaigner at Access Now. While this decision by the Oversight Board is a step in the right direction, it raises a number of red flags including how content is reviewed and rated and stresses the need for a thorough and transparent public audit of Facebook’s policies and actions regarding Palestine. Although Facebook restored the content, this is emblematic of Facebook’s systematic overenforcement of this Community Standard, particularly in relation to Arab and Muslim communities.
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Facebook initially removed the content after being reviewed by two content moderators for violating its Community Standard on Dangerous People and Organizations. On May 10, 2021, a Facebook user in Egypt shared a news item from news platform, Al Jazeera, which contained a threat of violence by a Qassam Brigades spokesperson. “We support the Board’s decision on this occasion, but demand accountability, transparency, and assurance that blatant censorship and disrespect for a people, a language, and a complex social context will never put us in this situation again.” “The details of the Oversight Board’s first MENA case affirms, once again, that Facebook’s arbitrary and non-transparent decisions are a feature, not a bug,” said Marwa Fatafta, MENA Policy Manager at Access Now. The Facebook Oversight Board’s latest decision on the platforms’s unjustified removal of news content related to the recent bout of violence in Palestine and Israel is welcomed, but not enough.