Standard do not align fully with the rationale of the policy, which sets out the aims of the policy (See Sudan Graphic Video and Video After Nigeria Church Attack). The Board reiterates the importance of recommendations no. 1 and no. 2 in the Sudan Graphic Video case, which called on Meta to amend its Violent and Graphic Content Community Standard to allow videos of people or dead bodies when shared for the purpose of raising awareness of or documenting human-rights abuses (that case concerned visible dismemberment.) Meta has conducted a policy development process in response to these recommendations and intends to report on its progress in its next quarterly update to the Board. In the Board’s view, this recommendation should apply to the rules for videos showing visible internal organs, and specifically provide for warning screens as an enforcement measure where the raising awareness (including factual reporting) and condemnation exception is engaged. Under Article 19, para. 3 of the ICCPR, expression may be restricted for a defined and limited list of reasons. The Board has previously found that the Violent and Graphic Content policy legitimately aims to protect the rights of others, including the privacy of the depicted individual (See Sudan Graphic Video and Video After Nigeria Church Attack). The present case demonstrates, additionally, that restricting access to the content for people under 18 served the legitimate aim of protecting the right to health of minors (Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 24). The principle of necessity and proportionality provides that any restrictions on freedom of expression “must be appropriate to achieve their protective function; they must be the least intrusive instrument amongst those which might achieve their protective function; [and] they must be proportionate to the interest to be protected” ( General Comment No. 34, para. 34). The Board has previously found in relation to violent and graphic content that a warning screen “does not place an undue burden on those who wish to see the content while informing others about the nature of the content and allowing them to decide whether to see it or not” (See Sudan Graphic Video). Warning screens prevent users from unwillingly seeing potentially disturbing content. Victims’ rights are further protected by Meta’s policy to remove videos and photos that show the violent death of someone (or its immediate aftermath) when a family member requests this. The content in this case can be distinguished from that in the Russian Poem case, which showed a still image of a body lying on the ground at long range, where the face of the victim was not visible, and where there were no clear visual indicators of violence. Applying a warning screen in that case was inconsistent with Meta’s guidance to reviewers and not a necessary or proportionate

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