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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.
Case decision
We welcome the Oversight Board's decision today, April 23, 2025, on this case. The Board overturned Meta’s decision to leave up the content in both cases. Meta will act to comply with the Board's decision and reinstate the content in both cases within 7 days.
When it is technically and operationally possible to do so, we will also take action on content that is identical and in the same context as the first case. For more information, please see our Newsroom post about how we implement the Board’s decisions.
After conducting a review of the recommendations provided by the Board, we will update this post with initial responses to those recommendations.
