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Produced a guide on engaging persons with disabilities: In collaboration 7. Stakeholder engagement: How external parties strengthen our work • with disability rights organizations working at the intersection of disability and tech policy, we produced a guide for our content policy teams. Perspectives from Indigenous Communities on non-medical drugs We engaged with stakeholders in North America, Gabon, Cameroon, and Zimbabwe to bring their voices into policy development on non-medical drugs in religious or traditional contexts. We explored how to balance freedom of expression about traditional and religious substances against the safety risks involved with the potential promotion of non-medical drugs, such as ayahusca. Among those consulted were a broad range of academics and civil society organizations, including scholars focused on health, medicine, anthropology, clinical psychology, drug policy, ethnography, ethno-ornithology, religion, and psychedelic drug research, as well as legal experts, regulators, freedom of expression advocates, health professionals, traditional/religious healer associations, community leaders, and indigenous groups. The input we received was used to craft a revision of our approach to positive discussion of non-medical drugs in traditional or religious contexts. Engagement with international organizations The rapid growth and impact of technology has prompted many international organizations to create policies that address human rights in the digital world. We regularly collaborate with a wide range of international government bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNESCO, the Office on Genocide Protection and the Responsibility to Protect, UNICEF, the World Economic Forum, the Internet Governance Forum, UNHCR, OECD, the UN Foundation, and various regional organizations. We provide insight into our Community Standards, how they are enforced, and how we seek to protect HRDs. In 2022, we intensified our engagements with the UN at the country level, including in Ethiopia, Kenya, Ukraine, Haiti, and Afghanistan. Some examples of our actions: • UNICEF and Meta worked closely to ensure that critical information was available for Ukrainians, along with ad credits to support fundraising and advocacy messages in top global markets, Ukraine, and neighboring countries such as Poland and Romania. • We met regularly with officials of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to discuss global and countryspecific issues and participate actively in the B-Tech Project. • We provided training on Community Standards and reporting Human rights report 41

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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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