Facebook è diventato una giurisdizione?
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/23/facebook-leak-underscore-strategy-operate-repressive-regimes>
Facebook leak underscores strategy to operate in repressive regimes
Facebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and “violent non-state actors” in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that underline how the tech corporation is striving to operate in repressive regimes.
The leak also reveals that Facebook maintains a list of “recognised crimes” and instructs its moderators to distinguish between those and “crimes not recognised by FB” when applying the company’s rules.
The list is designed to avoid giving succour to countries where criminal law is considered incompatible with basic human rights. “We only recognise crimes that cause physical, financial or mental injury to individual(s)” such as “theft, robbery and fraud, murder, vandalism [and] non-consensual sexual touching”, the guidelines say.
Crimes not recognised by Facebook include “claims about sexuality”, “peaceful protests against governments” and “discussing historical events/controversial subjects such as religion”. Facebook argues this is the only way it can function in countries where the rule of law is shaky.
But the revelation of its explicit decision to place itself above the law may cause friction with governments round the world. “One of the biggest problems is that Facebook has gone into every single country on the planet with no idea of the impact,” said Wendy Via, the co-founder and president of the US-based Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
She described Facebook, which was founded in the US, as having “little language capability and zero cultural competency”, adding: “You can’t build secret rules if you can’t understand the situation.”
Even in the US, Facebook has struggled to deal with cultural changes. The documents give insight into how Facebook struggled to define and act against the far-right QAnon movement. Accounts associated with QAnon were banned across the platform in October 2020 after years of growing popularity and controversy.
Defining QAnon as a “violence-inducing conspiracy network”, the company now bans non-state actors that “are organised under a name, sign mission statement or symbol; AND promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanising behaviour to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; AND have advocated for incidents of real-world violence to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted in those debunked theories”, according to the leaked guidelines for moderators, which date from December 2020.
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