Facebook has a body that evaluates and issues recommendations to improve the rules that govern the social network, on which it relies to delete content that it considers pose a risk to its users. The office, known as the Facebook Oversight Board (Oversight Board in English), issued its first recommendations to the community rules of the social network.
It consists of a total of 17 points focused on four specific themes: the publication of nudes, especially photographs of breasts; claims about non-medically endorsed COVID-19 treatments and hate messages related to ethnic or racial conflicts.
Facebook pledged to adopt only 11 of the recommendations. The most transcendental refers to how Facebook will act on publications that show nudity on Instagram. The social network promised to allow the publication of photographs of breasts as long as the image is related to breast cancer, its treatments and sequelae, breastfeeding or as an act of protest.
For the rest of the suggestions, Facebook promised to create a transparency portal in which it ensures, it will explain more clearly what was the rule to which it appealed to remove content from the social network. “In the coming months we will inaugurate our Transparency Center. It will be a site where our users can receive more information about our Community Rules and how we apply them on our platform ”, said Facebook.
The Supervisory Board also emphasized that Facebook should notify users when their content is removed from the social network through an automated review by bots. Nonetheless, Facebook said it will test how this type of moderation works, but has ruled out adopting the recommendation permanently.
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