Criticism of EU Migration Policies and Immigrants Bundle

UPDATED

OCT 17, 2024

2025-003-FB-UA, 2025-004-FB-UA

Today, October 17, 2024, the Oversight Board selected a case bundle appealed by Facebook users regarding discussions centered around the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum.

The first piece of content is an image that shows Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk looking through a peephole of a door, with a black man walking up behind him. The accompanying text criticizes the Tusk government’s support of the Pact and suggests that it has resulted in bringing “murzynów,” a word used to describe black people that is considered offensive by some and subject to debate in Poland. The accompanying caption encourages others to oppose the Pact before the European Parliament.

The second piece of content is an image depicting a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman holding up her hand in a stop gesture, with both a stop sign and German flag in the background. German text over the image states that people should no longer come to Germany as they don’t need any more “gang-rape specialists.”

Meta determined that both pieces of content did not violate our policies on Hate Speech as laid out in the Facebook Community Standards, and left both pieces of content up.

We will implement the Board’s decision once it has finished deliberating, and will update this post accordingly. Please see the Board's website for the decision when they issue it.