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SMEX • 27 Mar 2024

Oversight Board: Meta’s Censorship of ‘Shaheed’ Is “Unnecessary and Disproportionate”

(Beirut, March 27, 2024) – Yesterday, the much anticipated Oversight Board decision on  Meta’s approach to moderating the word “shaheed”…

  • Meta
  • Oversight Board
  • Shaheed
SMEX • 08 Feb 2022

[Report] Doxxing of Residential Information Targeting Vulnerable Groups: Online and Offline Harms 

As part of an Oversight Board process to issue a policy advisory opinion reviewing Meta’s policies on the sharing of…

  • Doxxing
  • Egypt
  • Facebook
SMEX • 24 Sep 2021

The Oversight Board’s decision on Palestine is a step in the right direction, now Facebook needs to step up

We, the undersigned organizations, welcome the recent decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on Facebook’s unjustified removal of news content related…

  • Content Moderation
  • Content Removal
  • Facebook
Abed Kataya • 21 Sep 2021

Facebook’s Moderation ‘Mistakes’ Silence Palestinian Voices

On September 14, Facebook’s Oversight Board issued a decision to restore a post originally published by Al-Jazeera’s Facebook page, featuring…

  • Al Jazeera
  • bias
  • Content Moderation