Examples of how Meta addresses
the potential risk
Content adversely impacting public
Attempts to interfere with or suppress voting
participation, voting, or running for office
are not allowed. We work to identify and remove
5. How we identify and address salient human rights risks
Examples of potential inherent salient
human rights risks identified in CSRA
this content, no matter who it comes from.
We provide an industry-leading level of
transparency around political advertising
and pages so users can see who is trying to
influence votes. In some markets, we prohibit
ads that discourage voting, prematurely
claim victory in an election, attempt to
delegitimize the election, or are inconsistent
with health authorities on voting safely.
Hate speech can impact voters. Our Community
Standards cover policies on harassment,
incitement, violence, and hate speech and ban
attacks on people based on characteristics like
ethnicity or religion. We remove content that
violates these rules as soon as we find it.
Efforts to prevent people from voting,
We actively search content for any organizations
increases in spam, foreign interference, or
that Meta has banned from attempting to
reports of content that violates our policies
violate our policies or cause offline harm.
In 2022, we updated Facebook Protect,
which offers security tools and additional
protections to candidates, their
campaigns, and elected officials.
Coordinated bad actors interfering with elections
Our advanced security operations
support election security by taking down
manipulative campaigns, identifying
emerging threats, and deploying our industryleading global fact-checking network.
We use AI to identify fake accounts
and remove the vast majority of these
accounts before they are reported. We have
removed over 150 networks of coordinated
inauthentic behavior since 2017.
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