9/7/24, 14:07 Violence against women | Consejo asesor de contenido Meta ultimately found that this post was a qualified behavioral statement and did not violate Facebook’s Hate Speech policy. While the statement that “men murder, rape and abuse women mentally and physically - all the time, every day” may be susceptible to different interpretations, the Board agrees with Meta's ultimate conclusion that the post taken as a whole is not violating. Rather than being a generalization about all men, or even the majority of men, the principal focus of the post is to reassure victims of gender-based violence that they are not to blame and encourage them to speak out. The user refers to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and then provides a helpline number and shares information about local support organizations for victims of intimate partner violence. The post discusses that women have little space to speak about these experiences, that victims are not to blame, and that men perpetrate acts of violence against women. Within this broader language, the statement that "Men murder, rape and abuse women mentally and physically - all the time, every day" describes the actions of those men who commit violence against women. In this context, this statement is also better understood as assurance to other victims of domestic violence that they are not alone. It is therefore a non-violating qualified statement. For some Board Members, the global context of violence against women is also relevant to the analysis, as the content reflects and raises awareness of a broader worldwide societal phenomenon, further reinforcing that read within the context of the post, the statement was not an assertion that all men are rapists or murderers. On the other hand, other Board Members do not believe that such broad and contested sociological considerations such as root cause assessments or analysis of power differentials should be used to interpret the statement, believing that it could invite controversial interpretations of what constitutes hate speech. The majority of the Board, though cognizant of the societal phenomenon of violence against women and the debates around its root causes, did not rely on them in order to reach its conclusion that the statement was a "qualified" one. Some Board Members disagreed with the majority’s interpretation of this post. For these Members, the user posted a clearly unqualified behavioral statement that men “murder, rape and abuse” women “all the time, every day.” Instead, they believe the post violates Meta’s hate speech rules. The Board also finds that the second post does not violate any Meta content policy. The Board finds that assessing the post as a whole, as Meta did with the first post, shows that this is not an “expression of contempt” against men, as prohibited by the Hate Speech policy. Meta argues that the user’s statement that she does not hate all men does not impact the assessment of other parts of the post. The Board disagrees. https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/ig-h3138h6s/?lang=es 12/21