Meta policy and practice, combined with broader external dynamics, does lead to different human-rights impacts on Palestinian and Arabic speaking users." The Board encourages Meta to deliver on commitments it made in response to the BSR report. Finally, Meta has a responsibility to preserve evidence of potential human-rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, as also recommended in the BSR report (recommendation 21) and advocated by civil society groups. Even when content is removed from Meta’s platforms, it is vital to preserve such evidence in the interest of future accountability (See Sudan Graphic Video and Armenian Prisoners of War Video). While Meta explained that it retains all content that violates its Community Standards for a period of one year, the Board urges that content specifically related to potential war crimes, crimes against humanity, and grave violations of human rights be identified and preserved in a more enduring and accessible way for purposes of longer-term accountability. The Board notes that Meta has agreed to implement recommendation no. 1 in the Armenian Prisoners of War Video case. This called on Meta to develop a protocol to preserve and, where appropriate, share with competent authorities, information to assist in investigations and legal processes to remedy or prosecute atrocity crimes or grave human-rights violations. Meta has informed the Board that it is in the final stages of developing a “consistent approach to retaining potential evidence of atrocity crimes and serious violations of international human rights law” and expects to provide the Board with a briefing about its approach soon. The Board expects Meta to fully implement the above recommendation. *Procedural Note: The Oversight Board's expedited decisions are prepared by panels of five members and are not subject to majority approval of the full Board. Board decisions do not necessarily represent the personal views of all members.

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