As a content porter, Facebook decides the categories of content that are permitted or forbidden on its platform. UN experts, civil society groups and academics have employed a human rights-based formula for content moderation. The starting point for defining a human rights-based formula in content moderation is the three-pillar framework set forth in the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Guiding Principles). According to its second pillar, business enterprises owe corporate responsibility to respect human rights by preventing infringement on the human rights of others and remedying human rights transgressions that they are involved in. Adopting a human rights-based formula would help Facebook swing from its ad hoc approach towards a principled framework strengthened by the common conceptual vocabulary of human rights law.

Source: The Telegraph March 29, 2020 18:33 UTC