Public consultation on responding to immigration-related hate speech.
Meta’s watchdog has launched a public consultation on immigration-related content that may be harmful to immigrants following two controversial incidents on Facebook. The board operates independently but receives funding from Meta, which assesses whether the company’s policies adequately protect refugees, migrants, immigrants and asylum seekers from serious hate speech. I plan to.
The first incident concerns a Facebook post made by Poland’s far-right coalition in May that used racist language. Despite the post amassing over 150,000 views and 400 shares, and receiving 15 hate speech reports from users, Meta chose to continue posting it after human review. . The second case concerns a June post on a German Facebook page that contained images expressing hostility toward immigrants. Meta also supported the decision to leave the post online after review.
Following the intervention of the Supervisory Board, Meta’s experts re-examined both cases and upheld their original decision. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, co-chair of the board of directors, said these cases are important in determining whether Meta’s policies are effective and sufficient in combating harmful content on its platform. He said that.
