Three posts being investigated were reported to Facebook by users but remained on Facebook after automated assessments. Even after Facebook users appealed, the posts were not reviewed by humans and remained online.
Meta's decision to not remove three posts relating to the Southport stabbings that sparked UK-wide riots is being investigated by its independent oversight board. In the hours after three girls were murdered in Southport while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, rumours spread online that the murderer was a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK by boat. It later emerged that the suspect in the case, Axel Rudakubana, was born in Cardiff in Wales to a Christian family.
The second post showed what looked like an AI-generated image of a giant man wearing a union jack T-shirt who is chasing several Muslim men. The post shared a time and place to gather for one of the protests and included the hashtag 'EnoughIsEnough'. The third post was another likely AI-generated image of four Muslim men running after a crying blonde toddler in a union jack T-shirt.
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