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The Sunday Show
A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices
May 26, 2024
Marwa Fatafta, Policy and advocacy director for Access Now, discusses challenges with Meta's moderation of Palestinian voices. Topics include biases in content moderation, difficulties facing journalists in Gaza, lack of civil society consultation, and the need for policy changes and advocacy efforts.
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- META over-enforces moderation on Arabic content compared to Hebrew due to challenges in discerning speech related to Hamas, leading to unintentional bias favoring Hebrew.
- During the conflict, META disproportionately removes Palestinian content while allowing hate speech, highlighting imbalanced moderation practices and potential complicity in inciting violence against marginalized groups.
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Report Findings on META's Arabic and Hebrew Content Moderation
A consultant report by BSR highlighted disparities in META's moderation practices, showing over-enforcement of Arabic content compared to Hebrew. The report attributed this to challenges in discerning speech related to Hamas, leading to unintentional bias favoring Hebrew content. Factors like insufficient routing of Arabic content and less accurate classifiers for Arabic languages contributed to the observed disparities.
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