Meta Platforms’ unbiased oversight board mentioned on Thursday that beginning this month, it will possibly resolve on making use of warning screens, marking content material as “disturbing” or “sensitive”.

The board, which already has the power to evaluate consumer appeals to take away content material, said it will be capable of make binding selections to use a warning display when “leaving up or restoring qualifying content”, together with to images and movies.

Separately in its quarterly transparency report, the board mentioned it obtained 3,47,000 appeals from Facebook and Instagram customers around the globe through the second quarter ended June 30.

“Since we started accepting appeals two years ago, we have received nearly two million appeals from users around the world,” the board report mentioned.

“This demonstrates the ongoing demand from users to appeal Meta’s content moderation decisions to an independent body.”

The oversight board, which incorporates teachers, rights consultants and attorneys, was created by the corporate to rule on a small slice of thorny content material moderation appeals, however it will possibly additionally advise on web site insurance policies.

Last month, it objected to Facebook’s removing of a newspaper report concerning the Taliban that it thought-about optimistic, backing customers’ freedom of expression and saying the tech firm relied too closely on automated moderation.

In different information, Meta on Wednesday mentioned that it constructed a synthetic intelligence system that interprets Hokkien into English although the Taiwanese language lacks a normal written kind.

The Silicon Valley tech titan that owns Facebook and Instagram billed the work at its Universal Speech Translator undertaking as an effort to allow customers from around the globe to socialize whatever the languages they communicate.

“Spoken communications can help break down barriers and bring people together wherever they are located — even in the metaverse,” Meta mentioned in a blog post.

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