3/10/22, 12:48 Oversight Board | Independent Judgment. Transparency. Legitimacy. Organizations after asking the Board to provide guidance on how this Community Standard should function. These recommendations take into account Facebook’s updates. The misplaced internal guidance Pending further changes to the public-facing Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, the Board recommends Facebook should take the following interim measures to reduce the erroneous enforcement of the existing policy: 1. Immediately restore the misplaced 2017 guidance to the Internal Implementation Standards and Known Questions (the internal guidance for content moderators), informing all content moderators that it exists and arranging immediate training on it. 2. Evaluate automated moderation processes for enforcement of the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy and where necessary update classifiers to exclude training data from prior enforcement errors that resulted from failures to apply the 2017 guidance. New training data should be added that reflects the restoration of this guidance. 3. Publish the results of the ongoing review process to determine if any other polices were lost, including descriptions of all lost policies, the period the policies were lost for, and steps taken to restore them. Updates to the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy Facebook notified the Board that it is currently working on an update to its policies to make clear that its rules on “praise” and “support” do not prohibit discussions on the conditions of confinement of designated individuals or other violations of their human rights. As an initial contribution to this policy development process, the Board recommends that Facebook should: 4. Reflect in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations “policy rationale” that respect for human rights and freedom of expression, in particular open discussion about human rights violations and abuses that relate to terrorism and efforts to counter terrorism, can advance the value of “Safety,” and that it is important for the platform to provide a space for these discussions. While “Safety” and “Voice” may sometimes be in tension, the policy rationale https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/IG-I9DP23IB/ 18/21