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CDT & ACLU Urge Meta Oversight Board to Protect Speech in Abortion-Related Cases

/ Emma Llansó

Also authored by CDT Intern Clare Mathias

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have provided comments to the Meta Oversight Board on three cases in which users appealed to restore their posts related to abortion in the United States.

In the comments, we explain why Meta should refine the hostile speech classifier and update its guidance to content moderators to ensure that posts around abortion and other political topics that involve the term “kill” but that do not incite violence are not removed.

We believe this will improve users’ ability to engage in meaningful discussions on Meta’s services, including those about reproductive rights and abortion access.

Read the full comments.

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