Facebookâs Oversight Board makes bizarre ruling in its first group of decisions
2021-01-29 20:00:19 UTC
Facebookâs Oversight Board has officially chimed in on its first five cases â and the rulings are certainly interesting.
The Oversight Board chose to overturn Facebookâs decision to remove content in four out of the five cases. As a result, Facebook must restore those four posts.
The most bizarre
decision from the board involved a post that was flagged as "anti-Muslim hate speech." A user from Myanmar posted a picture of a Syrian toddler who drowned while trying to reach Europe in 2015. Along with the photo, they included a comment which Facebook translated as, â[there is] something wrong with Muslims psychologically.â