Meta has an independent Oversight Board that reviews and makes decisions about content. The way this usually works, it seems is that someone challenges the content and the Oversight Board acts as a kind of final court where the content is judged for compatibility with the site’s rules.
Last year, two posts on Meta by Libs of TikTok, aka Chaya Raichik, were challenged and today the Oversight Board issued it’s decision: The posts can stay because these are current topics of public disagreement and there is no clear link between the posts in question and any violence against trans people.
In two posts that include videos in which a transgender woman is confronted for using a women’s bathroom and a transgender athlete wins a track race, the majority of the Board has upheld Meta’s decisions to leave up the content. The Board notes that public debate on…
