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According to the board, the platform was wrong to remove an August 2024 post that superimposed the faces of Harris and Walz onto a 1994 movie poster for, on which the characters are seen pinching each other’s nipples. While Facebook said the post violated its bullying and harassment standard because it included “derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings,” the user appealed to the board, and Facebook reinstated the post.
“In this case, however, the Board highlights the overenforcement of Meta’s Bullying and Harassment policy with respect to satire and political speech in the form of a non-sexualized derogatory depiction of political figures,” the board wrote.
As the image appears on other social media platforms, the board referred to the edited photo as “nothing more than a commonplace satirical image of prominent politicians and is instantly recognizable as such.”, “Senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.
Meta has not published its process for assessing satirical content on Facebook. Earlier this year, the platform developed the habit of removing all manipulated media but changed its procedure to label such posts with the caption “made with AI” instead.of President Joe Biden went viral at the beginning of this year. A video of Biden placing an “I Voted” sticker on his granddaughter was manipulated to appear as if he was fondling her chest.
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