The site’s recent actions, such as banning critical journalists, appear to indicate policy is made on a whim

Facebook’s community standards is a sprawling document, broken down into six top-level categories and 24 subcategories, distinguishing between content that is allowed and that which requires extra context, replete with examples of breaches and justifications for its choices. It is treated with quasi-legalistic power by the company’s oversight board, which incorporates its own precedent, as well as international human rights standards, to occasionally overrule Facebook’s own moderation choices.

Twitter’s rulebook is simpler: don’t annoy Elon Musk.

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