9 Jul 2021
Facebook failed to transfer a key exception to its rules on censoring discussion about “dangerous individuals” to an new system, leading to the guidelines effectively being “lost” for two years, according to an investigation from the company’s quasi-independent “oversight board.”
The oversight board discovered the “misplaced” rule in the course of an investigation of the removal of an Instagram post discussing the solitary confinement of a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a left-wing militant group considered to be a terrorist organization by multiple governments. The rules the Masters of the Universe “misplaced” state that posts about the living conditions of an individual should not be censored off Mark Zuckerberg’s platforms.