Meta's Oversight Board has criticized the company for failing to effectively enforce its ban on Holocaust denial content on Facebook and Instagram, urging Meta to update its tracking methods for such content. The board has overturned Instagram's decision to keep a Holocaust denial post live. Separately, Meta is rolling out new safety measures, including tighter teen messaging limitations and parental controls, to protect teenagers from unwanted messages on Instagram and Facebook.
Instagram and Facebook will now prevent strangers from messaging minors by default https://t.co/lO6j1dTfNz
Meta introduces additional measures to safeguard teens on its platforms Meta is working to provide age-appropriate experiences for teens, and to make it simpler for parents to shape their teens’ online experiences and protect them from unwanted contact. https://t.co/qa8Ub88FBi
⚠️ META MOVES TO PROTECT TEENS FROM UNWANTED MESSAGES ON INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK (Reuters) Meta Platforms is building more safeguards to protect teen users from unwanted direct messages on Instagram and Facebook, the social media platform said on Thursday. The move comes weeks… https://t.co/aBjFhuzknz
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Meta is rolling out tighter teen messaging limitations and parental controls https://t.co/JDrrdRf9me
🔴 On Tuesday, Meta’s Oversight Board became the latest in a long line of critics who say the company has failed to do enough to stamp out anti-Semitism on the service https://t.co/sIdM7447m6
A @HRW report found that security forces use social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, to entrap and harass LGBT people, as well as to gather and create evidence to prosecute them. Meta should be doing more to protect LGBT people. https://t.co/qg6HI4rVuQ
Meta's Oversight Board has overturned Instagram's decision to keep a post denying the Holocaust live on the platform https://t.co/9GOkw4EzaN
🔴 Facebook has failed to remove Holocaust denial content says network’s own oversight board. Read more here 👇 https://t.co/50XALSgA18
Meta failing to catch Holocaust denial memes and innuendo, oversight panel concludes https://t.co/M8OIjmRwAR
The Meta Oversight Board is urging the tech company that operates Facebook and Instagram to take steps to update how it tracks Holocaust denial and its enforcement of the ban on false content, according to a decision https://t.co/R5zF4sD77n https://t.co/QOvDqdK6u1