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5. How we identify and address salient human rights risks More ways we respect the Right to Life, Liberty, and Security of Person The following initiatives highlight our approaches to help groups and individuals at risk. Protecting HRDs and journalists For HRDs, journalists, and other vulnerable people, we developed resource tools in the Meta Safety Center. Our Journalist Safety Guide helps ensure journalists are equipped to manage their online safety with tools and resources to safeguard their sources, contacts, logins, and personal information. We also support the international news community by sponsoring programs via our Meta Journalism Project. In 2022, we took these actions: • Gave activists and journalists more protections from threats of violence, including removing content that “outs” people as activists in situations that could endanger them. • Secured the accounts of HRDs who have been arrested or detained in authoritarian states or conflict settings against unauthorized access by local law enforcement, security services, and conflict actors. • Advanced the Meta Human Rights Defender Fund and Journalist Safety Initiative for Asia Pacific, through which the international human rights group Civil Rights Defenders provided urgent evacuation, temporary relocation, digital security measures, security trainings, and legal aid to more than 500 HRDs, mainly in South and Southeast Asia. Civil Rights Defenders have also conducted security assessments, facilitated implementation of security measures, and provided other security-related supports to HRDs and organizations in the regions. • Intensified engagement with HRDs to give continuous feedback on the impact of regional and global defender threats and trained HRDs on the Safety Guide in the Privacy Center. • Started a free, online digital security and safety training course for journalists and HRDs, created and managed by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers. In 2022, we presented the Safety Guide in the Privacy Center to the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs. Human trafficking and exploitation In an effort to disrupt and prevent harm, we remove content that facilitates or coordinates the exploitation of people, including human trafficking.4 In 2022, we updated our Human Exploitation Policy to prohibit content that solicits smuggling services. We also provide informational resources on Facebook about the risks of engaging with smugglers, the signs of potential exploitation, and ways to seek legal migration, including asylum. We developed these resources in consultation with experts, including the International Organization on Migration. Human rights report For more on human trafficking and exploitation, see page 32 of our first annual Human Rights report. 4 23

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Date Published: Sep 20, 2023

Abstract: This is Meta’s second annual Human Rights Report, covering the calendar year 2022. It demonstrates how we are living up to the commitments made in our Corporate Human Rights Policy, which is based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The report shows how we are building on our work to respect human rights, how we assess potential impacts that could be linked to our services, and what we are doing to mitigate these risks.

Over the years, Meta’s services and apps have helped grassroots movements grow rapidly, challenge orthodoxies, advocate for rights, and in doing so, change the world. 2022 was no exception. As new challenges emerge, our human rights work evolves to address such issues as the use of our services in countries in conflict, threats to an open internet, and the rise of artificial intelligence.

We have strengthened our governance systems to advance our work toward respecting human rights across all our products and services. This includes continuing to empower the Oversight Board, which published 12 content moderation decisions and made 91 recommendations in 2022. Our efforts to strengthen governance also include training our employees. During the year, we launched human rights training titled Bigger than Meta: Human Rights company-wide.

In 2022, Meta passed its Global Network Initiative assessment, which included an examination of our policies and processes as well as eight specific illustrative case studies involving government takedown requests and data requests.

Human rights due diligence is central to our Corporate Human Rights Policy. In this report, we disclose key findings from our Comprehensive Human Rights Salient Risk Assessment (CSRA) and provide an update on our implementation of the recommendations borne of the due diligence work.

In 2022, we conducted the CSRA in partnership with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), an independent organization with expertise in human rights. The analysis identified eight potential salient risks as highest priority, based on UNGP criteria. These were 1.) Freedom of Opinion and Expression; 2.) Privacy; 3.) Equality and Non-Discrimination; 4.) Life, Liberty, and Security of Person; 5.) Best Interests of the Child; 6.) Public Participation, to Vote, and to Be Elected; 7.) Freedom of Association and Assembly; and 8.) Right to Health. The assessment found that the potential risks relating to how Meta delivers our services and profit models are varied and nuanced.

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