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6. Updates on due dillegence recommendations covering incitement of violence, surveillance, online sexual exploitation, trafficking, extremist activity, and corporate accountability. Some of our subsequent actions include the following: • We built new services and developed stronger policies in collaboration with the Commission on Elections, election watchdogs, independent fact-checkers, and civil society organizations during the 2022 Philippines election. These efforts expanded our ability to remove violating content and networks, connect more people to credible election information, promote digital literacy and civic engagement, and provide more transparency into political ads. • We made the Facebook Ad Library available in the Philippines and required advertisers to complete our ad authorizations process and include “Paid for by” disclaimers on ads about elections, politics, and certain categories of social issues. • We made several updates to our Community Standards, including expanding protections for public figures such as journalists and human rights defenders (HRDs). • We removed more types of violating content, and our policies now provide stronger protections against gender-based harassment. We launched new policies against mass harassment and brigading and removed coordinated efforts of mass harassment that target individuals at heightened risk of offline harm. This includes attacks against dissidents. • Partnering with the International Center for Journalists and the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, we rolled out a free digital security and safety program to help journalists and HRDs protect their digital assets and counter online harassment. Meta’s Journalist Safety Hub centralizes all resources and tools available on our apps. More details can be found in the Human Rights Implementation Update 2023. Israel and Palestine We published the report from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) on its independent Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) exercise into the impact of our policies and processes in Israel and Palestine during May 2021. This was in response to the Oversight Board’s request for an independent review to determine if Meta’s content moderation in Arabic and Hebrew, including its use of automation, had been applied without bias. The report surfaced industry-wide, long-standing challenges around content moderation in conflict-affected regions and the need to protect freedom of expression while reducing the risk of online services being used to spread hate or incite violence. The report also highlighted the complexities of Human rights report 35

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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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