Banned image databases can amplify bad moderation calls.
Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation tools, criticizing it for removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia. The decision arrived as the board took on a set of new cases, including a question about a video of sexual assault in India.
The Oversight Board, a semi-independent body funded by Meta, considered a political cartoon depicting Colombian police officers beating a man with batons. The cartoon was at some point added to Meta’s Media Matching Service database, which meant Meta’s system flagged it automatically for takedown when users posted it. But when users saw their posts removed, they began appealing the decision — and winning.
It’s asking Meta to publish the error rates for content that’s mistakenly included in the matching bank. As usual for the board’s policy recommendations, Meta must respond to the suggestion, but it can choose whether to implement it.The Oversight Board also addressed one of numerous incidents testing Facebook’s line between supporting extremist groups and reporting on them.
The case, the board says, “may indicate a wider problem” with the rules about dangerous organizations. After several incidents, it says the policy appears unclear to both users and moderators, and punishments for breaking the rule are “unclear and severe.” It’s asking for a clearer and narrower definition of “praising” dangerous individuals and devoting more moderators to the review queue.
Meanwhile, the Oversight Board is seeking public comment on two cases: The first concerns a video of a mass shooting at a Nigerian church, which was banned for violating Meta’s “violent and graphic content” policy but may have had news value that should have justified keeping it up.
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