Meta oversight board urges company to end ban on Arabic word 'shaheed'

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Halifax police investigating Monday morning Dartmouth death as suspicious | SaltWire #newsupdateNEW YORK - Meta's oversight board on Tuesday called on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word"shaheed," or"martyr" in English, after a year-long review found the Facebook owner's approach was"overbroad" and had unnecessarily suppressed the speech of millions of users.

Those criticisms have escalated since the onset of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in October. Rights groups have accused Meta of suppressing content supportive of Palestinians on Facebook and Instagram against the backdrop of a war that has killed tens of thousands of people in Gaza following Hamas' deadly raids into Israel on Oct 7.

"Meta has been operating under the assumption that censorship can and will improve safety, but the evidence suggests that censorship can marginalize whole populations while not improving safety at all," Oversight Board co-chair Helle Thorning-Schmidt said in a statement.

 

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