Gripes of Trans Using Women’s Bathroom, Winning Girls’ Sports Title Considered for Hate Speech by Soros-Tied Facebook Censorship Board

The Facebook (now Meta) censorship board stacked with leftists, many with deep connections to leftwing billionaire George Soros, is considering if social media posts complaining about transgender females—biological men who claim to be in the wrong body and identify as women—constitute hate speech, bullying or harassment. This is relevant because the oversight board, as it is officially known, determines which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website which has an estimated 5 billion users. Other topics recently considered by the board include whether anti-immigration posts fall under hate speech since Meta has declared that refugees, migrants and asylum seekers are protected against “the most severe attacks” on its platforms.

Now the panel is preparing to examine a pair of 2024 posts reported for hate speech, bullying and harassment multiple times but allowed by Meta to remain on Facebook and its other popular social media platform Instagram. Users appealed to Meta against its decision not to remove the posts, but the California-based technology conglomerate determined that neither violated its “community standards.” At least two individuals reported the content to the oversight board, which announced recently that it is taking on the cases. In one a Facebook user in the United States posted a video of a woman confronting a transgender woman—a biological man—for using the women’s bathroom. “The post refers to the person being confronted as a man and asks why it is permitted for them to use a women’s bathroom,” the board writes in its announcement. The other complaint involves an Instagram account that posted a video of a transgender girl—a biological boy—winning a female sports competition in the U.S. In the post spectators vocally disapprove of the result and the athlete is identified as a boy, “questioning whether they are female,” according to the censorship panel.

Meta’s hate speech policy prohibits direct attacks targeting a person or group of people based on protected characteristics, including sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, but does not include misgendering as a form of prohibited attack. “Misgendering means referring to a person using a word, especially a pronoun or the way in which they are addressed, that does not reflect their gender identity,” the oversight board explains. Meta standards for bullying and harassment were not met in either case because there was no explicit call for exclusion and there was no “cognizable attack or call for exclusion” in either social media post. One of the users who appealed Meta’s decision to keep the posts on its platform played the “transphobic” card and the other asserted that the post attacks and harasses the transgender athlete. “The Board selected these cases to assess whether Meta’s approach to moderating discussions around gender identity respects users’ freedom of expression and the rights of transgender and non-binary people,” the panel writes, adding that both fall under its “hate speech against marginalized groups and gender strategic priorities.”

It seems like the panel is fabricating terms to align with the left’s political correctness on steroids. Not surprising considering who sits on the censorship board, which Judicial Watch exposed shortly after it was launched. For starters, the group of 21 is overwhelmingly leftist and likely to restrict conservative views. Nearly half of the members have ties to Soros, the wealthy philanthropist who dedicates huge sums to spreading a radical left agenda that includes targeting conservative politicians, erasing national borders and identities, financing civil unrest and orchestrating refugee crises for political gain. Some on the oversight board have made political contributions to top Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren and others have publicly expressed their disdain for former President Donald Trump.

Among the panel’s standouts is András Sajó, the founding Dean of Legal Studies at Soros’s Central European University and a board member of his Open Society Foundations (OSF) Justice Initiative. Alan Rusbridger, a former British newspaper editor and Oxford University official, serves on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which has received at least $750,000 from OSF. Afia Asantewaa Sariyev, a human rights attorney, is the program manager at Soros’s Open Society Initiative for West Africa. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, an Indian lawyer and civil society activist, runs a nonprofit called Centre for Law and Policy Research that focuses on transgender rights, gender equality and public health. The group is a grantee of a justice foundation that pocketed $1.4 million from OSF. The list of Meta judges connected to Soros and the organized left continues. Read more about it a Judicial Watch report published last year.

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