Users of Meta’s Threads will have the ability to appeal the company’s content moderation decisions.
Meta Platforms’ supervisory board said Thursday it will include social media platform Threads under its jurisdiction, allowing users to appeal the company’s content moderation decisions.
The government said that in addition to the 130 million people who use Threads, Meta can also refer to incidents related to content on the social media platform.
Board members review Meta’s content decisions based on Instagram’s Community Guidelines, which also apply to Threads.
“We believe we can help Threads be more open, adopt a global approach and respect freedom of expression and other human rights,” the oversight board said in a blog post.
Funded by the social media company, but operating independently, an oversight board was established in late 2020 to review Facebook and Instagram’s decisions to remove or abandon certain content.
The board’s panel consists of researchers, legal experts and lawyers who make decisions on whether to approve or reject the actions of a social media company.
Meta will be able to implement policy and enforcement recommendations based on the government’s decisions on Threads for 12 months, but it will not be able to implement product-specific recommendations, the government said.
