Meta's Oversight Board tells company to allow 'death to Khamenei' posts

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Meta's Oversight Board reversed the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan 'death to Khamenei' to criticize the Iranian leader

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA /Handout via REUTERSOversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticize the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule barring violent threats.

It also urged the company to develop better ways of factoring such context into its content policies and outline clearly when rhetorical threats against heads of state were permitted. The protests, in which demonstrators from all walks of life have called for the fall of Iran's ruling theocracy, have posed one of the biggest challenges to the government of the Shi'ite Muslim-ruled Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution.repeatedly in its treatment of violent political rhetoric on its platforms.

 

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Well let’s all try to say the same to USA leaders to see how long we last on social media or in freedom eh? Country of exceptionalism the USA served by vassal Silicon Valley lackeys

😂😂😂

O matado do irá

Would a slogan like 'D**th to Meta' be permissible?

Meta can fuck itself with its bs algos

Hate speech policies? Can I also say Death to B*den?

Flush this poopie dude

So hate speech is good sometimes. Depends on the target. Hypocrites

West propaganda

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