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Access Now 5 May 2021 | 10:18 am Today, May 5, 2021, the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the “deplatforming” of former U.S. President Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram, finding Facebook’s decision to be necessary and proportionate. Access Now welcomes this decision, but is alarmed by the Facebook Oversight Board’s statement that it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose an indefinite suspension without sufficient clarity in Facebook’s terms and procedures even with Trump’s history of using the platforms to incite violence and spread disinformation. Facebook should clarify its rules and procedures on this issue immediately. Access Now deemed Facebook’s decision to suspend Donald Trump’s account in January 2021 a necessary and proportionate response. Under the international human rights framework, incitement to violence and hatred allow for the application of last resort measures to guarantee public safety. As a number of expe ....
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 ....
The impact of new technologies on human rights: 22nd EU NGO Human Rights Forum 22/01/2021 Each year, the European Union and civil society jointly organise a forum on human rights around the world. FIDH, as one of the organisers of the 2020 edition, welcomes the 22nd annual forum’s exploration of one of the greatest challenges of our times: ensuring that technological governance be grounded in human rights. FIDH believes that human rights must become a central priority in the debate on new technologies. The stakes are high. Digital technology, new technologies, and artificial intelligence are now inextricably bound up with our lives – in the form of communication tools, as well as tools of economic, climatic or medical rationalisation. By rushing into globalised competition without first thinking to the rationale, we render our future all the more uncertain. Yet human rights are not yet properly included in considerations and discussions on use of these new technolo ....