Meta Oversight Board urges investigation into platform’s role in amplifying misinformation
The social media giant has been advised to provide greater transparency on content removal and asses the platform's impact on public health in a report on covid policies.Meta’s Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions — has published a report that supports content moderation actions taken by Meta at the height of the covid pandemic.
Meta is being urged by the board to commission an impact assessment with a focus on how design features like Facebook’s newsfeed recommendation algorithms can amplify dangerous health-related misinformation. This includes publicly releasing any prior research that the company has conducted into the matter. During the height of the covid pandemic in 2021, Facebook
for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread, accusing the platform’s algorithm of boosting false information over accurate content. The report advises Meta to publish information on government requests to remove covid-related content The panel also recommends that Meta should maintain its existing covid misinformation policy, but should be more transparent when removing content across its platforms. Within the report, the board advises Meta to publish information on government requests to review content regarding public health emergencies amid concerns that the covid pandemic has been used to “erode the tenets of democracy.”
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