Meta's rules are getting better. The tech firm's Oversight Board shared this detail.
In 2022, the Oversight Board released a report criticizing Meta's rules and regulations.
This is because they are not transparent enough, which can drastically affect consumers.
Now, the independent body released a new report highlighting the improvements in Meta's rules.
Meta's Rules are Getting Better, Says Oversight Board
According to Engadget's latest report, the Oversight Board's recommendations helped Meta to make its rules more transparent.
The board said it was encouraging to see the systematic changes made by Meta to improve its rules and how they are enforced.
These include rules on dangerous organizations, as well as user notifications.
Of course, the Oversight Board said that Meta still needs to improve.
One is the lack of transparency over some aspects of the company's newsworthiness exception.
Meta is believed to be allowing content that has public interest to break its policies.
"Little is known about the process it [Meta] uses to decide whether the content is newsworthy," said the Meta Oversight Board.
Oversight Board Receives Millions of Appeals!
Gizmodo reported that the Meta Oversight Board received over 1 million appeals to the tech firm's decisions in 2022.
The independent body stated that it received one appeal every 24 seconds, over 3,530 daily appeals.
The majority of these appeals are linked to violations of two of Meta's community standards. These are hate speech and violence.
Based on the Oversight Board's report, the appeals related to hate speech are slowly decreasing. However, violence-related appeals have seen an upward trend for the past few years.
Those related to bullying and harassment are also increasing in the past few years.
Meanwhile, appeals linked to dangerous individuals and organizations, as well as adult nudity, remain low from 2020 to 2022.
"By publicly making these recommendations, and publicly monitoring Meta's responses and implementation, we have opened a space for transparent dialogue with the company that did not previously exist," said the Oversight Board.
If you want to learn more details about the latest findings of the Oversight Board, you can click this link.
