Facebook: Moderating Content Showing Terrorist Attacks in Russia

Meta justified the takedowns to the Board on the basis that “quickly removing [a] moment of attack imagery on visible victims promotes safety by helping to mitigate the risk of contagion and copycat attacks while disrupting the spread of perpetrator propaganda” and that this also protects the “dignity of victims and their families”. [...] Two of the posts showed live video footage of the attack with armed individuals shooting at victims while one showed a still image of the same and then a video taken from outside of the shopping centre which was at the centre of the attack, showing it burning Comments on the Policy Framework There are a number of structural problems with the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals standard. [...] Underlying these conditions – the need for a direct and immediate connection between the reporting and the likelihood of imminent violence – is a key standard for preventing the abuse of national security restrictions on freedom of expression, namely by requiring a very close nexus between the statement and the risk of harm, including that the latter is imminent. [...] 2)5 case, the European Court of Human Rights noted that “cases such as the present one … require the right to respect for private life to be balanced against the right to freedom of expression” and then set out a list of factors to be considered, of which an “essential” one was the contribution of the statements “to a debate of general interest”. [...] 374-FZ, and Federal Law “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation regarding the establishment of additional measures to counter terrorism and ensure public safety”, 6 July 2016, No.