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Facebook’s Supreme Court Receives an Appeal Every 24 Seconds
Meta’s Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-esque body formed as a check on Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation decisions, received nearly 1.3 million appeals to the tech giant’s decisions last year. That mammoth figure amounts to an appeal every 24 seconds, 3,537 cases a day. The vast majority of those appeals involved alleged violations of just…
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Meta Is Making It Harder to Wind Up in Facebook Jail
Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of policies revealed this Thursday, parent company Meta says it’s now harder for users to wind up with their Facebook accounts suspended for lesser violations of its rules. Those changes come after years of pushback from civil society groups and Meta’s semi-independent Oversight…
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Google Tells Supreme Court Upending Section 230 Would Break ‘Central Building Block’ of the Internet
In little more than a month’s time, the Alphabet-owned tech giant Google will soon be the main face of the entire tech industry defending how the internet currently exists, good and ill. The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear arguments that could completely redefine whether companies are liable for everything that gets uploaded to…
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Meta Oversight Board Says Facebook and Instagram Skirt Moderation Rules for Famous People
On Tuesday, Meta’s Oversight Board dropped a more than-50 page report detailing how the company needs to overhaul its systems that have allowed major influencers and celebrities leeway to post disingenuous or harmful content that would otherwise be moderated.