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• 7. Stakeholder engagement: How external parties strengthen our work Our actions: Carried out digital security and safety training for vulnerable groups, including female politicians and female public figures, human rights defenders (HRDs), and activists • Conducted a Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) Policy roundtable in Nigeria as well as two roundtables in London with the Nigerian diaspora • Collaborated with Trusted Partners through workshops and consultations to help them identify and escalate content including hate speech, misinformation, violence and incitement, voter interference, and bullying and harassment Engaging marginalized and underrepresented communities in content policy We made progress toward our goal to bring the voices of marginalized and underrepresented communities into content policy development. We developed an Inclusivity Framework to ensure our diverse stakeholders are considered in the development of policy as well as to inform Community Standards. Our actions: • Solicited feedback on Community Standards: Leaders from faith, indigenous, and ethnic communities, who are underrepresented on our apps, took part in eight roundtables across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to discuss how effective our Community Standards are at creating an inclusive environment across Meta services and apps. These included roundtables in post-election Kenya and analysis of the migrant crisis in Poland. • Strengthened relationships with the LGBTQIA+ community: We increased engagements with groups and representatives in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on the impact of Meta’s content policies on users, particularly regarding hate speech, bullying, and harassment. These included LGBTQIA+ HRDs, civil society organizations, academic scholars, and activists from the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Uganda, Egypt, Sudan, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Gambia, and Tanzania. • Expanded outreach to Caribbean civil society: We listened to concerns around the spread of potentially violating content and led discussions on digital rights, online safety and security, women’s safety, and LGBTQIA+ rights. Experts and civil society groups from Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and the Cayman Islands participated in the first roundtable of its kind. • Broadened engagement with faith communities: We expanded our policy engagements to include Muslim women in the UK, Muslim communities in the Sahel, and the Sikh community in the UK, as well as the Bahá’í community with representatives from Canada, the U.S., Chile, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Tunisia. Human rights report 40

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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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