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02 About this progress report Meta’s1 second annual Human Rights Report reflects our progress on our commitments to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and our Corporate Human Rights Policy. We report on how we are addressing our human rights impacts. This includes a review of our recent salient risk assessment, insights from our human rights due diligence, and the actions we are taking in response. Our first annual Human Rights Report was published in July 2022 and covered our learnings and progress from January 1 2020 through December 31 2021. This, our second annual Human Rights Report, covers our learnings and progress from January 1 2022 through December 31 2022. It builds on the foundational first report. We report on Meta services including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Reality Labs. Our reporting is complemented by Meta’s First Responsible Business Practices Report, which is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. As stated in the Meta 2023 Responsible Business Practices Report, human rights scored highly as a priority topic in Meta’s updated priority topic assessment. Meta’s Corporate Human Rights Policy applies enterprisewide. Each Meta service and entity has its own policies and procedures with, at times, varying human rights impacts. This 1 On October 28 2021, Facebook, Inc. changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. For consistency, this report uses “Meta” to refer to the company both before and after October 28, 2021. References to “Facebook” apply only to the social media services and apps, not the company as a whole. report references actions taken by Meta as a company regarding one or more Meta entities. Statements are not intended to imply that Meta took that same action regarding all entities. 2 In writing this report, we engaged with many internal and external stakeholders and sought to balance brevity with completeness. Human rights report 2 For example, WhatsApp, an end-toend encrypted messaging and calling application, has unique human rights touchpoints. This report’s discussion of content moderation and related actions on Facebook and Instagram does not apply to WhatsApp and, unless a policy or action is specified as applying to WhatsApp, it does not apply to WhatsApp. Further, while many actions described in this report apply to Instagram and Facebook, there are intentional distinctions in policies and procedures between the services. If a policy is labeled a “Facebook” policy, it may not apply to Instagram. No statement in this report is intended to create — or should be construed as creating — new obligations (legal or otherwise) regarding the application of a policy or procedure to other services or entities. 6

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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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