{"id":4361,"date":"2022-01-14T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/ethiopia-facebook-to-assess-feasibility-of-study-into-impact-on-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:38:04","slug":"ethiopia-facebook-to-assess-feasibility-of-study-into-impact-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/ethiopia-facebook-to-assess-feasibility-of-study-into-impact-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Facebook to \u2018assess feasibility\u2019 of study into impact on human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says human rights diligence projects can be \u2018highly time intensive\u2019 and run for year or more<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Facebook and Instagram has said it will \u201cassess the feasibility\u201d of conducting an independent human rights study related to its work in Ethiopia, after the company\u2019s oversight board urged it to investigate how its platforms have been used to spread hate speech and unverified rumours in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meta was asked by its oversight board, which reviews the company\u2019s content moderation decisions and policies, to conduct the study after it upheld the removal of a Facebook post alleging the involvement of ethnic Tigrayan civilians in atrocities in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region. Because the platform had subsequently reinstated the post after an appeal by the user who posted it, Facebook was required to take it down again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/14\/ethiopia-facebook-to-assess-feasibility-of-study-into-impact-on-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bfbef651f46e1553b4463579b56b886531be0505\/0_249_5638_3383\/master\/5638.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5e9bda8913e0729d8c82374e24866438\" title=\"Ethiopia: Facebook to \u2018assess feasibility\u2019 of study into impact on human rights\" \/>Meta says human rights diligence projects can be \u2018highly time intensive\u2019 and run for year or more<br \/>\nThe owner of Facebook and Instagram has said it will \u201cassess the feasibility\u201d of conducting an independent human rights study related to its work in Ethiopia, after the company\u2019s oversight board urged it to investigate how its platforms have been used to spread hate speech and unverified rumours in the country.<br \/>\nMeta was asked by its oversight board, which reviews the company\u2019s content moderation decisions and policies, to conduct the study after it upheld the removal of a Facebook post alleging the involvement of ethnic Tigrayan civilians in atrocities in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region. Because the platform had subsequently reinstated the post after an appeal by the user who posted it, Facebook was required to take it down again. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says human rights diligence projects can be \u2018highly time intensive\u2019 and run for year or more The owner of Facebook and Instagram has said it will \u201cassess the feasibility\u201d of conducting an independent human rights study related to its work in Ethiopia, after the company\u2019s oversight board urged it to investigate how its platforms &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/ethiopia-facebook-to-assess-feasibility-of-study-into-impact-on-human-rights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethiopia: Facebook to \u2018assess feasibility\u2019 of study into impact on human rights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}