Meta hit with ~$275M GDPR penalty for Facebook data-scraping breach • TechCrunch
TechCrunchMAR 14 2023
Meta is finally evaluating its moderation policies to stop the unlawful censorship of Arabic-speaking people. Meta's practices have violated Arabic-speaking users and the rights of Palestinians by targeting their posts, even those by news organizations, to a higher degree than other posts. It's high time that Meta put an end to this over-enforcement.
Meta should have priorities other than just reviewing the moderation of the Arabic word "shaheed" as the algorithm of its flagship platform Facebook has automatically generated dozens of pages for Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations despite its policy to outright ban them.