The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship", days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns.
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(FILES) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 9, 2024. The UN rights chief insisted on January 10, 2025 that regulating harmful content online "is not censorship", days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns. "Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real world consequences. Regulating such content is not censorship," Volker Turk said on X, whose owner Elon Musk has also repeatedly accused fact-checking programmes of censoring more conservative voices. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
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The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship", days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns.
"Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real world consequences. Regulating such content is not censorship," Volker Turk said on X.
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