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Leftist Anti-Free Speech Meta Oversight Board Goes Global

Meta’s leftist, anti-free speech Oversight Board has somehow managed to evolve into something worse by expanding to Europe with a new foreign appeals center to assist government crackdowns on speech.

The Oversight Board’s new Appeals Centre Europe, first reported by The Washington Poston Oct. 8, is funded by a one-time $15 million grant by the Board’s trust. It is specifically designed to comply with a harsh censorship law in the European Union (EU). Significantly, the new Appeals Centre will not only determine what speech is and is not allowed on Meta’s platforms (including Facebook) but also appeals from Google-owned YouTube and Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok.

The Post reported that the Centre “will function under a sweeping European law known as the Digital Services Act [DSA], which requires tech companies to allow users to appeal…

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