The Oversight Board has upheld Meta’s decision to leave up a Facebook post that makes allegations of corruption against a Filipino politician using images of him and his children, several of whom appear to be minors. More
The Oversight Board recommends that an exception be included in Meta’s Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity Community Standard to allow videos showing non-sexual child abuse in educational settings, in certain circumstances. More
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s decision to take down a documentary video posted by Voice of America (VOA) Urdu, revealing the identities of child victims of sexual abuse and murder from Pakistan in the 1990s. The majority find that a newsworthiness allowance should have been applied. More
In two posts that include videos in which a transgender woman is confronted for using a women’s bathroom and a transgender athlete wins a track race, the majority of the Board has upheld Meta’s decisions to leave up the content. More
In its policy advisory opinion, the Board recommends that Meta remove the exception to the Privacy Violations Community Standard that allows the sharing of private residential information when it is considered 'publicly available'. More
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to leave up an Instagram post containing false and distorted claims about the Holocaust. More
The Board has upheld Meta’s decision to restore a post to Instagram containing a video of a woman being sexually assaulted by a group of men. More
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta's original decision to remove an Instagram post which, according to the user, showed pictures of Arabic words that can be used in a derogatory way towards men with effeminate mannerisms. More
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta's original decision to remove a Facebook post from an Indigenous North American artist that was removed under Facebook's Hate Speech Community Standard. More