Meta’s Oversight Board seeks details on the company’s new hate speech policies

Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions, on Tuesday issued its response to the social media company’s new hate speech policies announced in January. The Board says that Meta’s new policies were “announced hastily, in a departure from regular procedure,” and called on the company to provide more information about its rules. In addition, the Board asked Meta to asses the impact of its new policies on vulnerable user groups, report those findings publicly, and update the Board every six months. The Board says it’s in discussions with Meta to retool its fact-checking policies in regions outside the U.S., as well. Just weeks before President Donald Trump took office, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg embarked on an overhaul of the company’s content moderation policies in an effort to allow “more speech” on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. As part of this push, Meta rolled back hate speech rules that protected immigrants and LGBTQIA+ us ... Read full article.