![]() ![]() The board is expecting "a large volume of submissions." Once the board has considered all input and issued its policy advisory, Meta has 60 days to respond publicly to explain how it will or will not act upon recommendations. ![]() The oversight board already accepted Meta's request and is fielding public comments here. "We are requesting an advisory opinion from the Oversight Board on whether Meta's current measures to address COVID-19 misinformation under our harmful health misinformation policy continue to be appropriate, or whether we should address this misinformation through other means, like labeling or demoting it either directly or through our third-party fact-checking program," Clegg wrote. To help them decide, Meta is asking its oversight board to weigh whether the "current COVID-19 misinformation policy is still appropriate" now that "extraordinary circumstances at the onset of the pandemic" have passed and many "countries around the world seek to return to more normal life."Ĭlegg says that Meta began removing entire categories of information from the site for the first time during the pandemic, and this created tension that it's now trying to resolve between two of the company's values: protecting the "free expression and safety" of users. On Tuesday, Meta's president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, wrote in a statement that Meta is considering whether or not Facebook and Instagram should continue to remove all posts promoting falsehoods about vaccines, masks, and social distancing. That includes recently speculating that normalcy might mean it's time to go back to the company's heydays of allowing health misinformation to spread through posts on Facebook and Instagram. Where cases are rising right now, some cities and counties are considering reinstating mask mandates, and many hospitals are confronting a chronic nursing shortage.ĭespite new concerns and a recent uptick in daily deaths recorded in the US and globally, however, Meta is already thinking about what a return to normal might look like. The US continues to struggle with pandemic management. Caroline Brehman / Contributor | CQ-Roll Call, Inc.
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