Stand Together Asks Facebook Oversight Board to Uphold Alleged Nazi Quotes
Facebook’s Oversight Board should allow a post containing a purported quote from a Nazi Germany official to stand, Stand Together commented in the company’s review of the case (see 2012010036). In case 2020-005-FB-UA, Facebook removed a post of content that…
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was previously shared two years prior, containing an alleged quote from Joseph Goebbels. The company cited violation of its dangerous individuals and organizations policy. Stand Together said suppressing the speech wouldn’t “prevent and disrupt real-world harm” or achieve other Oversight Board goals: The policy “is unnecessarily broad in a way that provides Facebook discretion to ban wide arrays of legitimate expression.” It questioned whether the company would remove content related to the Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Julius Caesar regimes, all three of which were allegedly responsible for mass killings: “Should quotes by them or by senior officials in their regimes be banned?” The Oversight Board didn’t comment. Further public comments are expected to be published up to 90 days from the board’s decision in each of the six cases up for review.