The Oversight Board which examines content moderation decisions made by Meta’s social platforms is to look at three cases linked to posts shared during the summer riots in the UK.
Violence erupted across the country after a knife attack in Southport which killed three girls and injured eight others, fuelled by misinformation spreading rapidly on social media about the attacker’s identity, including false claims that he was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK on a small boat.
