Meta Oversight Board’s Nascent Standard on Hate Speech: Towards Plural Standard Setting in International Human Rights Law (SSRN)

Private organizations like the Meta Oversight Board are influencing new international human rights legislation (IHRL) guidelines on hate speech in a lawful pluralistic environment. Influenced by U.S. constitutional law, traditional IHRL establishes a high bar for speech restrictions that is directly related to impending incitement to violence, discrimination, or hostility. The Meta Oversight Board, on the other hand, promotes a more expansive definition of harm by excluding information that lacks explicit incitement or purpose and concentrating on the long-term societal repercussions of hate speech. This development marks a change in global online governance toward more expansive regulatory requirements.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5731110