Common sense would tell most people that it shouldn’t take two months and a committee of global progressives to figure out that Meta should allow political satire and harmless memes on its platforms. But it’s quite clear that the folks at Meta are not most people.
On Wednesday, the Meta Oversight Board overturned Facebook’s decision to censor a Dumb and Dumber meme that made fun of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. The board rebuked Facebook’s censorship as an “overenforcement” of Meta’s community standards.
In its summary report, the Oversight Board even called out the company, saying that its “failure to recognize the nature of this post and treat it accordingly raises serious concerns about the systems and resources Meta has in place to effectively make content determinations in such electoral…
