Turkey: ARTICLE 19’s submission to the Facebook Oversight Board
A man reads news about social media at a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey, 29 July 2020. Turkey s Parliament has passed a controversial bill which gives the government control of social media. Photo by SEDAT SUNA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
ARTICLE 19 has submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board in a case concerning the removal of an Instagram post featuring a picture of Abdullah Ocalan, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Facebook said the image violated its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations Community Standards. In our submission, we highlight that Facebook’s community standards should allow for public debate on national security issues. ARTICLE 19 identifies a number of other issues with Facebook’s policy in this area and draws attention to relevant international standards and case-law on incitement to terrorism.
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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