mandates include providing human content review with local linguistic expertise and establishing early warning systems for physical harm. They must also preserve evidence of potential war crimes for international accountability mechanisms. • Protection of Groups at Risk (Para 130): Platforms must implement specific safeguards for journalists and human rights defenders. This includes conducting systemic gender impact assessments and establishing procedures to prevent the misuse of bad-faith reporting tools used to censor professional voices. 2.3. Meta, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Digital platforms have established their own internal policies to apply the international standards and their own corporate values and practices. Meta has established a complex layer of policies intended to protect the information ecosystem on the platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, many of which contain specific protections for the media. • Corporate Human Rights Policy: Meta explicitly commits to the UNGPs and pledges to protect “human rights defenders and journalists” from overbroad surveillance and State-driven interference. • Approach to Elections: This policy outlines a framework for protecting elections online. It commits Meta to preventing interference, fighting misinformation, increasing transparency, and empowering people to vote. • Community standards: This policy sets out what content the company will delete from its platforms. It includes the rules on misinformation, violent and graphic content, among others. • Newsworthiness Allowance: A critical provision stating that content violating standard community rules may remain on the platform if its “public interest value”, such as documenting human rights abuses or electoral irregularities, outweighs the risk of harm. Page 7 of 19