Meta rules that blanket ban on pro-Palestine slogan would hinder free speech
Meta’s content moderation board has backed the company’s decision to allow
Facebook posts containing the phrase “From the River to the Sea” after ruling
that a blanket ban on the pro-Palestine slogan would hinder free speech.
The Oversight Board reviewed three cases involving Facebook posts that featured
“From the River to the Sea” and found they did not break Meta’s rules involving
restrictions on hate speech and incitement, while an outright ban on the phrase
would interfere with political speech in “unacceptable ways”.
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Meta has system for evaluating the effectiveness of its own moderation for
Arabic language content but not Hebrew
Meta is struggling with moderating content related to the Israel-Palestine war,
particularly in Hebrew, despite recent changes to internal policies, new
documents have revealed.
Internal policy guidelines shared with the Guardian by a former Meta employee
who worked on content moderation outline a multilayered process for moderating
content related to the conflict. But the documents indicate Meta, which owns the
platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, does not have the same processes in
place to gauge the accuracy of moderation of Hebrew content and Arabic content.
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Officials seized documents from NSO Group to try to stop handover of information
about notorious hacking tool, files suggest
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US
lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the
world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.
Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer,
NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with
demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the
invasive technology.
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Meta says it would remove content ‘attacking “Zionists” when it is not
explicitly about the political movement’
Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would start taking down more posts that target
“Zionists” when the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather
than representing supporters of the political movement.
The Facebook and Instagram parent said in a blog post it would remove content
“attacking ‘Zionists’ when it is not explicitly about the political movement”
and uses antisemitic stereotypes or threatens harm through intimidation or
violence directed against Jews or Israelis.
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