medical condition includes serious physical injury. * Case summaries provide an overview of the case and do not have precedential value. Full case decision 1. Decision summary The Oversight Board overturns Meta’s original decision to leave up a Facebook post that mocks a target of gender-based violence. Meta has acknowledged that its original decision was wrong, and that the content violates its policy on Bullying and Harassment. The Board recommends that Meta undertakes a policy development process to establish a policy aimed at addressing content that normalizes gender-based violence through praise, justification, celebration or mocking of gender-based violence. The Board understands that Meta is conducting a policy development process which, among other issues, is considering how to address praise of gender-based violence. This recommendation is in support of a more thorough approach to limiting the harms caused by the normalization of gender-based violence. 2. Case description and background In May 2021, a Facebook user in Iraq posted a photo with a caption in Arabic. The photo shows a woman with visible marks of a physical attack, including bruises on her face and body. The caption begins by warning women about making mistakes when writing to their husbands. The caption states that the woman in the photo wrote a letter to her husband, which the husband misunderstood, according to the caption, due to the woman’s typographical error in writing the letter. According to the post, the husband thought the woman asked him to bring her a “donkey,” while in fact, she was asking him for a “veil.” In Arabic, the words for “donkey” and “veil” look similar ( "‫ "حمار‬and "‫)”خمار‬. The caption then mocks the situation and concludes that the woman got what she deserved as a result of the mistake. There are several laughing and smiling emojis throughout the post. According to several sources, the woman depicted in the photograph is a Syrian activist who had been imprisoned by the regime of Bashar Al-Assad and later beaten by individuals believed to be affiliated with the regime. Her image has been shared on social media in the past. The caption does not name her, but her face is clearly visible. The post also includes a