8/21/22, 10:18 PM
Oversight Board overrules Facebook deletion of Myanmar “hate speech” post – Free Expression Myanmar
Facebook’s “Administrative Action Bot” identified the
phrase “$တရုတ်” and deleted the post. No Facebook
users reported the post. Under its Hate Speech
Community Standard, Facebook deletes content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their race,
ethnicity and/or national origin with “profane terms or
phrases with the intent to insult, including but not limited to:
fuck, bitch, motherfucker.”
The Oversight Board requested public comments that
address:
Whether Facebook’s decision to remove the post is
consistent with the company’s Hate Speech
Community Standard, specifically the rule against profane terms or phrases with the intent to insult.
Whether Facebook’s decision to remove the post is
consistent with the company’s stated values and human rights responsibilities.
Information about the social and political context in
Myanmar, including efforts to discourage companies
from engaging financially with the Myanmar military
regime and to financially support the CRPH as well as
the relationship between the Myanmar military regime
and China. This information would help the Board bet-
to digital rights
in Myanmar
အော်ရီ
ဒူး(မြန်မာ)အား
ရောင်းထုတ်မည့်
အစီအစဥ်သည်
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်း ဒ
စ်ဂျစ်တယ်
အခွင့်အရေးများ
အား ထိခိုက်နိုင်ချေ
ရှိ
29th July 2022
Extrajudicial
killings of
dissidents a war
crime with
serious chilling
effect
အာဏာသိမ်းမှု
အား ဆန့်ကျင်
သူများကို တရား
မျှတသည့်ဥပဒေ
လုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်း
များနှင့်မညီဘဲ
သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း
သည် ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ
အခွင့်အရေးကို
အသုံးချမှုအား
တားဆီးကန့်သတ်
သည့် သက်ရောက်
မှုကို ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေ
ပြီး၊ ဆိုးရွားသော
စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှု
ကျူးလွန်ခြင်း
ဖြစ်သည်။
25th July 2022
ter understand the possible intent and impact of the
post.
Trends in discourse around foreign government intervention in Myanmar and use of potentially discriminatory language in that context.
Information about Facebook’s potentially erroneous
enforcement of Community Standards, for example on
Hate Speech, to restrict political speech in Myanmar.
Whether Facebook users have noted changes in
Facebook’s moderation and appeals in Myanmar-related posts since the 2021 coup.
Content moderation challenges specific to the Burmese
language.
https://freeexpressionmyanmar.org/oversight-board-overrules-facebook-deletion-of-myanmar-hate-speech-post/
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