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‘Patterns Of Censorship’: Meta’s Oversight Board Rules That Company Stifled Speech By Removing Posts About Abortion
- Meta removed posts on Facebook and Instagram criticizing a proposed South Carolina bill that would have applied homicide penalties to abortion seekers, but the Oversight Board overturned the decision.
- The Oversight Board called on Meta to publish data on the enforcement accuracy of its Violence and Incitement policies to determine if there is a trend of over-enforcement of political speech.
- Meta's automated screening services initially removed the posts due to hostile speech, but human moderators upheld the decision. However, six out of the seven moderators got the decision wrong, and Meta did not provide details on their reasoning.
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Meta's Oversight Board Rules That Company Stifled Speech by Removing Posts About Abortion - The Ohio Star
by Kate Anderson Meta’s Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that Facebook and Instagram showed “patterns of censorship” by removing posts about abortion that the social media platforms claimed constituted death threats. The board had been weighing a series of posts that were initially taken down by Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, for potential death threats against both pro-abortion and pro-life advocates before being reinstated aft…
·Ohio, United States
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