A Meta Oversight Board member whined that the platform’s election-interfering 2020 censorship was “not enough.”
Despite a widely cited Media Research Center poll showing that Big Tech censorship altered 2020 presidential election results, Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín claimed Facebook’s censorship was not sufficient. San Martín called for more censorship in a January interview with WIRED. She not only demanded increased censorship but announced that the Board has made a “lot of the decisions and the case selection” with the 2024 election in mind. She also urged Meta to strike “preemptively” for its election censorship.
San Martín’s suggestions for Meta include “adding labels to posts that are related to elections, directing people to reliable information, prohibiting paid advertisement when it calls into question the…
