Meta Wants Oversight Board to Review Covid Policies After Millions of Posts Removed
- Meta executive Clegg asks if policies should be revised
- Company has removed more than 25 million pieces of content
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Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has asked its Oversight Board to review the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policies to see if they should remain in place.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, wrote Tuesday that Meta’s policies were created during “extraordinary circumstances” and that the rules meant Meta removed Covid-related misinformation “on an unprecedented scale.”