13/3/24, 13:44 Oversight Board | Independent Judgment. Transparency. Legitimacy. benefits of raising awareness of violence against prisoners of war against the potential harm caused by revealing their identity. The insights provided at this meeting were valuable, and the Board extends its appreciation to all participants. 8. Oversight Board analysis The Board analyzed Meta's content policies, human rights responsibilities and values to determine whether this content should be kept up with a warning screen. The Board also assessed the implications of this case for Meta’s broader approach to content governance, particularly in conflict and crisis situations. The Board selected this case as an opportunity to assess Meta’s policies and practices in moderating content that depicts identifiable prisoners of war. Additionally, the case allows the Board to examine Meta’s compliance with its human rights responsibilities in crisis and conflict situations generally. 8.1 Compliance with Meta’s content policies The Board finds that while the content violates the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime Community Standard, Meta correctly applied the newsworthiness allowance to allow the content to remain on Facebook, and the contents of the video required a “mark as disturbing” warning screen under the Violent and Graphic Content Community Standard. I. Content rules Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime The Board finds that the content in this case exposed the identity of prisoners of war, through imagery in the video that showed the faces of detained Armenian soldiers. It therefore clearly violated the rule prohibiting such content in the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime Community Standard. Acknowledging that this rule requires additional information and/or context to enforce, the Board agrees with Meta that the soldiers’ uniforms indicated that the individuals with their faces visible were members of the Armenian armed forces. The context of the war indicated that these https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/FB-YLRV35WD/ 15/26