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Tue, May 4th 2021 12:04pm Mike Masnick Tomorrow, the Oversight Board is set to reveal its opinion on whether Facebook made the right decision in banning former President Trump. And that will get tons of attention. But the Board came out with an interesting decision last week regarding a content takedown in India, that got almost no attention at all. Just last week, we wrote about an ongoing issue in India, where the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed in almost every way possible in dealing with the COVID pandemic, but has decided the best thing to focus on right now is silencing critics on Twitter. That backdrop is pretty important considering that the very next day, the Oversight Board scolded Facebook for taking down content criticizing Modi s government. ....
Turkey: ARTICLE 19’s submission to the Facebook Oversight Board A man reads news about social media at a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey, 29 July 2020. Turkey s Parliament has passed a controversial bill which gives the government control of social media. Photo by SEDAT SUNA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ARTICLE 19 has submitted public comments to the Facebook Oversight Board in a case concerning the removal of an Instagram post featuring a picture of Abdullah Ocalan, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Facebook said the image violated its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations Community Standards. In our submission, we highlight that Facebook’s community standards should allow for public debate on national security issues. ARTICLE 19 identifies a number of other issues with Facebook’s policy in this area and draws attention to relevant international standards and case-law on incitement to terrorism. ....
7 hours ago Facebook’s Oversight Board has overturned a decision of the company to remove a post which had claimed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were threatening Sikhs with genocide. The Board, which acts as a court of appeals of sorts to Facebook, said that Facebook’s removal of the post was not consistent with its Community Standards or to its human rights responsibilities. It also “urged” the company to take action so as to avoid mistakes which silence the voices of religious minorities. The post was created in November 2020, when a user shared a Punjabi video of an interview a social activist, along with a caption that said RSS and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party were “moving towards extremism”. The user said that RSS was threatening to kill Sikhs and repeat the deadly saga of the 1984 riots. They also claimed that Modi himself , or advice from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, was formulating the genocide. ....
Oversight Board overturns Facebook’s decision to remove a post related to ‘genocide of Sikhs’ Updated: Updated: April 29, 2021 17:01 IST The Board said it found that Facebook’s original decision to remove the post was not consistent with the company’s Community Standards or its human rights responsibilities. Share Article Representational Image
The Board said it found that Facebook’s original decision to remove the post was not consistent with the company’s Community Standards or its human rights responsibilities. The Oversight Board, an independent body set up by Facebook, on Thursday said it has overturned the social network’s decision to remove a November 2020 post alleging that the RSS and PM Narendra Modi were threatening to kill Sikhs in India. ....