The Council for Supervision of META is under new pressure in order to respond to recent changes in the company's policy to verify facts and moderation, which were made without participation in the advisory group. The coalition of civil society organizations published an open letter to the supervision council, which stated that the group should resign, since “recent events make it clear that the company abandoned some proposal for supervision and actions without taking into account the consequences.”
A letter that was the first reported To The Washington Postcomes from Global coalition in technical justiceWhich consists of more than 250 human rights defenders and digital technologies, organizations to verify facts and other civil society groups from around the world.
“Mass resignation would be a historical act of conscience – the one that will sound reckless ignoring the meta to human rights cannot be justified, ignored or hidden behind the curtains of the supervision advice that does not have real power,” is Letter He says “to resign together, you will demonstrate solidarity with all these communities affected by the unscrupulous actions of META, increase public pressure on META and demonstrate that true accountability cannot exist in the system intended for its suppression.”
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta It will end Its long-term programs for checking the facts and the abandonment of moderation of content that protected immigrants and LGBT people on their platform. The meta -general director who, after creating the board of directors, said that “Facebook should not make so many important decisions on the freedom of expression and security on their own.” reportedly I decided to make changes after a visit with the then -chosen President Donald Trump last year and consulted only with the “hill” of people in Meta.
Council of the Council of Supervision He said later The fact that these changes became “surprise” for the group, which was created in order to help form a policy in a common platform, but in this case they were not consulted with them.
The global coalition for technical justice is not the first group to doubt the role of advice on supervision as a result of the broad changes in Tsuckerberg’s policy. Congress members Also recently raised The question is in a letter addressed to the Director General of META. “The Council for Supervision, once advertised as a lighthouse of responsibility, becomes toothless when Meta itself refuses to adhere to the principles of“ trust and safety, ”they wrote.
One of the members of the global coalition for technical justice was even more direct. “If the Council for Supervision of Supervision does not play any role (even counseling) in the only largest change in the moderation of content since their founding, it is clear that the experiment failed”, “The real committee of the Facebook supervision”, a group of long -standing Criticism managementHe said in a statement last month.
Meanwhile, the reaction of the Council over the supervision of the changes in META has still been muffled. The group is published statement Soon after the announcement of Zuckerberg, saying that it “interacts with META” in its plan for the implementation of community notes. He later added a brief update, which said that this would be a “consideration of the consequences of various changes” that go beyond the scope of verification of facts. ”
Meta did not immediately respond to a request about the comment. In their statement, the co -chairs of the Council over the supervision said that “the board carefully evaluates changes in the META policy and the investigation of their influence” on current affairs. “As always, we will conduct a strict and reasonable assessment of these politicians, issue mandatory decisions and put forward nuanced political recommendations to which meta should respond – to care for transparency for users and civil society on how these changes affect them.”
Update, February 13, 2025, 15:48 pt: Added a statement from the Council over the supervision.