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  • 3 days ago | oversightboard.com | Rhodri Davies

    The Board has overturned Meta’s decision to leave up a Facebook post showing an AI-manipulated video of a person who appears to be Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo Nazário endorsing an online game. Taking the post down is consistent with Meta’s Community Standards on fraud and spam. Meta should also have rejected the content for advertisement, as its rules prohibit using the image of a famous person to bait people into engaging with an ad.

  • 5 days ago | oversightboard.com | Rhodri Davies

    The Oversight Board has overturned Meta in three out of four cases that demonstrate the disproportionate impacts of the Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity policy on users who share images of bare-chested indigenous women, when such nudity is part of the Indigenous Peoples’ beliefs and customs. It has also upheld a decision to leave up content in a third case due to the newsworthiness allowance.

  • 5 days ago | oversightboard.com | Rhodri Davies

    Today, the Board is announcing a new case for consideration. As part of this, we invite people and organizations to submit public comments by using the button below. As we cannot hear every appeal, the Board prioritizes cases that have the potential to affect lots of users around the world, are of critical importance to public discourse or raise important questions about Meta’s policies.

  • 1 week ago | oversightboard.com | Rhodri Davies

    The Oversight Board overturns Meta’s decision to leave up content targeting one of Peru’s leading human rights defenders. Restrictions on fundamental freedoms, such as the right to assembly and association, are increasing in Peru, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) among those impacted. Containing an image of the defender that has been altered, likely with AI, to show blood dripping down her face, the post was shared by a member of La Resistencia.

  • 1 month ago | oversightboard.com | Rhodri Davies

    Today, the Board is announcing new cases for consideration. As part of this, we invite people and organizations to submit public comments by using the button below. As we cannot hear every appeal, the Board prioritizes cases that have the potential to affect lots of users around the world, are of critical importance to public discourse or raise important questions about Meta’s policies.

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