Last Updated: February 23, 2024, 08:55 IST
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Meta’s Threads is testing new options to enhance the consumer expertise. (Image: News18)
Meta, retaining Threads beneath its purview, will permit customers to enchantment the corporate’s content material moderation choices.
Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board stated on Thursday it will embrace social media platform Threads beneath its purview, permitting customers to enchantment the corporate’s content material moderation choices.
The board stated, along with the 130 million individuals utilizing Threads, Meta may even be capable to refer circumstances about content material on the social media platform.
Board members will study Meta’s content material choices primarily based on Instagram’s group tips, which additionally apply to Threads.
“We believe we can help Threads be more transparent, take a global approach, and respect freedom of expression and other human rights,” the Oversight Board stated in a weblog publish.
The Oversight Board, which is funded by the social media firm however run independently, was created in late 2020 to assessment Facebook and Instagram’s choices on taking down or leaving up sure content material.
The board’s panel consists of lecturers, rights consultants and legal professionals that makes rulings on whether or not to uphold or overturn the social media firm’s actions.
Meta will be capable to implement coverage and enforcement suggestions from board’s choices about Threads for a interval of 12 months, however won’t be able to implement product-particular suggestions, the board stated.
