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Oversight Board says parent company Meta has ‘serious questions’ to answer over
two posts allowed to remain online
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must answer “serious questions” about its handling of
anti-immigration material, according to the company’s content watchdog, as it
opened an investigation into two Facebook posts.
The Oversight Board is investigating Meta’s decision to keep the posts online
after acknowledging that it receives a significant number of complaints from
users over content that shares anti-immigrant views.
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General election 2024
Keir Starmer
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Israel-Gaza war
In some constituencies – often with large Muslim populations – a parallel viral
campaign focuses on emotive issues such as Gaza that rarely feature in national
coverage
When Keir Starmer was interviewed for the Sun’s YouTube live stream last week,
only about 10,000 people tuned in to watch him pledge to get tough on illegal
immigration.
Under pressure to prove he would speed up deportations, the Labour leader
singled out one example in particular: “At the moment people coming from
countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because they’re not being
processed.”
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