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2025-009-FB-UA, 2025-010-FB-UA, 2025-011-FB-UA
Today, December 3, 2024, the Oversight Board selected a case bundle appealed by Facebook users regarding three pieces of content shared during the UK riots that took place between July 30 and August 7, 2024.
The first piece of content was a post expressing agreement with the riots, calling for more mosques to be smashed and buildings to be set on fire where “scum are living.” Upon initial review, Meta left the content up. However, upon further review, we determined the content did in fact violate our policy on Violence and Incitement and removed the post.
The second piece of content is a reshare of another post of what appears to be an AI-generated image of a very large man wearing a union jack (the UK flag) t-shirt who is looming over several men wearing salwar kameezes. The image has text overlay providing the time and place of a protest.
The third piece of content is a repost of what appears to be an AI-generated image of four bearded men in salwar kameezes – one of whom is waving a knife – running after a crying blond-haired toddler in a union jack t-shirt. The image is accompanied with a caption that says “wake up.”
Meta determined that neither the second nor third piece of content violated our Violence and Incitement or Hate Speech policies, 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.
