CyberWell Statement on Meta’s Announcement to End Fact Checking, Shift to Community Notes
Meta’s recent announcement is not just about the rollout of Community Notes, following their fellow platforms X and YouTube – it is a systematic lowering of the bar on how Meta intends to enforce their Community Standards against hate speech and harassment online. Given the mounting evidence of how hate speech, incendiary content and harassment lead to real-world harm including hate crimes, terror attacks and child suicide, CyberWell is deeply concerned at the purposeful deterioration of Trust & Safety best practices at Meta.
Shaheed | Meta’s Oversight Board Loosens Policy Regulating Glorification of Violence
CyberWell warns that the recent opinion released by Meta’s Oversight Board loosening restrictions on use of the term “shaheed” may lead to harmful consequences and promote pro-terror and violent content online.
Social media platforms hosting antisemitism? The EU can now fine them for that!
Social media companies can monitor and remove content when they are motivated by the purse strings to do so (Copyright infringement? Removed in a heartbeat). With the DSA overseeing very large platforms directly and making it possible to fine them up to 6% of their global profit, we can expect to see social media companies actively monitoring their own platforms for hate and taking it down.
Online Hatred: The Need for New Strategies
In a world where the boundaries between the digital space and real life are blurred by an unrestrained flow of information, the digital form of “meta-hatred” has direct consequences in daily life.
Parler is not the problem–Gateway platforms are
Deplatforming Parler and other fringe networks with radicalized activists, folks with unpopular opinions and conspiracy followers fails to address the real problem— gateway platforms.
