Monday, October 31, 2016

Letter to Facebook: be clear about the ‘delete policy’ – NOS

More than seventy organizations and action committees from the United States want from Facebook clarification on the guidelines for posts to remove. The organizations expressed in a letter to Facebook ceo Zuckerberg their displeasure over the removal of videos on police brutality and the suspension of accounts of Palestinian journalists.

the authors of The letter especially like to know when Facebook on behalf of government agencies messages or videos away. “If the most vulnerable groups of the society to your platform target to their experiences with iniquity, to sharing, Facebook the moral obligation to have their expression to protect”, they write.

Facebook had in recent months repeatedly defend against criticism that it wrongly messages had been deleted. Especially when a world-famous photo from the Vietnam war was removed because there was a naked girl, creek the social media a lot of negative comments. The censored photo ‘should’ eventually on Facebook to be placed.

According to NOS-techredacteur Nando Kasteleijn struggling Facebook already with rules for deletion of posts. “Especially after the controversy about the Vietnam-photo realize Facebook is that it must be done otherwise,” he says. As a result of that incident has Facebook better than promised. “The question is where that leads.”

Reuters reported last week that five Facebook-directors “editorial choices”. “That indicates that they are at the top of the company are doing,” says Kasteleijn.

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