Friday, 29 January 2021, 7:49 am
Today, the Facebook Oversight Board published its
first
decisions on five of six cases, for which civil
society feedback was solicited and Access Now submitted
comments.
The Board overturned Facebook’s content removal in four
out of the five cases reviewed.
Of the cases reviewed,
the
only
case for which the Board determined Facebook
was correct in removing content is the case regarding hate
speech in the context of the Armenia and Azerbaijan
conflict.
“Access Now welcomes the Facebook
Oversight Board’s acknowledgement of a lack of meaningful
transparency in Facebook’s content moderation
practices,” said
Eliska Pirkova, Europe Policy