{"id":32236,"date":"2021-11-18T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/?p=32236"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:35:46","slug":"civil-rights-audit-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/civil-rights-audit-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Through on Meta\u2019s Civil Rights Audit Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>We\u2019re releasing a progress report on the recommendations from our Civil Rights Audit as a part of our commitment to move toward increased equity, safety and dignity on our platforms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>This report marks the beginning of the Civil Rights Team\u2019s path to enhance protections for marginalized communities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, just more than one year after the Civil Rights Team was established, we\u2019re releasing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Metas-Progress-on-Civil-Rights-Audit-Commitments.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta\u2019s Progress on Civil Rights Audit Commitments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This report marks the beginning of the Civil Rights Team\u2019s path to enhance protections for marginalized communities and demonstrates our commitment to move toward increased equity, safety and dignity on our platforms. Meta is committed to that evolution and its long-term progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I joined Meta, formerly known as Facebook, in January 2021 as the head of the Civil Rights Team, and as of just a few weeks ago, my team has grown to nine full-time employees. This team was created as a result of the audit that the company voluntarily undertook. The Auditors conducted their review over the course of two years and published a final report in July 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audit covered seven substantive issue areas under the leadership of Laura Murphy, a veteran civil rights and civil liberties leader, and was supported by Megan Cacace, a civil rights attorney and partner at Relman Colfax PLLC at the time of the audit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32257\" src=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?resize=890%2C647\" alt=\"Chart tracking Meta's Progress\" width=\"890\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=1486 1486w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tracking-Metas-Progress_Chart.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The auditors described 117 actions and recommendations. 65 have been implemented, and 42 are either in progress or are ongoing, given the nature of the recommendation. We will continue to evaluate the feasibility of eight, and there are two recommendations that will not be implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32259\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32259\" src=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?resize=890%2C575\" alt=\"Chart showing Audit Recommendations &amp; Actions\" width=\"890\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=1671 1671w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Audit-Reccomendations-and-actions_Chart.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note: In addition to the issues areas above, the Auditors highlighted eight focus areas with respect to privacy, rather than specific recommendations. Our progress on privacy is detailed in Section VIII of this report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some key highlights from the report include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Infrastructure<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Civil Rights Team has grown to nine full-time employees, including six women of color. Their expertise spans voting rights, immigration, law enforcement and criminal justice, technology products and policy, hate crimes, counterterrorism and national security. We have folded into existing processes and developed new ones. Our team is also rolling out multiple internal trainings to provide education on civil rights laws in the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This infrastructure is further enhanced by our Human Rights Team and our new corporate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Facebooks-Corporate-Human-Rights-Policy.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">human rights policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, embedded in the company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.facebook.com\/code-of-conduct\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">code of conduct<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US 2020 Elections\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta applied lessons learned from more than 200 elections around the world. We created new products and policies around voter suppression, created teams and technologies to combat election interference and made political advertising more transparent.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta also helped more Americans register to vote \u2014 an estimated 4.5 million across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger \u2014 and made it easier for voters to get the information they needed. Learn more in our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/US-2020-Elections-Report.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US 2020 election report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content Moderation and Enforcement<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company expanded its <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">policies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.fb.com\/policies\/community-standards\/\">prohibit veiled and implicit threats<\/a>; added a policy to address hate speech attacks on concepts, ideas, practices, beliefs and institutions related to protected characteristics when those attacks pose an imminent risk of harm, intimidation or discrimination; enhanced its policies to provide increased protections for involuntary public figures; and adopted a policy to help protect people from brigading and mass harassment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta has also revisited its violence and incitement policies \u2014 specifically, the allowance around the discussion of state use of force. We\u2019ve developed a framework to evaluate content posted by a state official, weighing the risk of contributing to offline harm against the importance of public awareness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company has <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">improved<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/07\/facebook-diversity-report-2021\/\">representation of women and underrepresented minorities<\/a> in our workforce and in leadership positions director-level and above, including Black and Latinx leaders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta has also diversified suppliers and vendors, and has distributed nearly all of the $100 million pledged last year in grants and ad credits to Black-owned small- and medium-sized businesses, creators and nonprofits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ads<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently announced<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/news\/removing-certain-ad-targeting-options-and-expanding-our-ad-controls\">remove certain ad targeting options for advertisers<\/a>. Starting next year, companies, organizations and other entities purchasing ads will not be able to select ad targeting options, such as interests related to health, race or ethnicity, political affiliation, religion or sexual orientation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta has also worked to provide more transparency and secure access data for researchers while protecting people\u2019s privacy, including through the US-based pilot to provide researchers with access to more than <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.65 million<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/01\/increasing-transparency-around-us-2020-elections-ads\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">social issue, electoral and political ads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that ran during the three-month period prior to Election Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building Products with Civil Rights in Mind\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Civil Rights Team embarked on developing a civil rights review process across Meta technologies called Project Height. This process will provide an analysis framework for product teams to assess potential civil rights concerns presented in new product launches.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Civil Rights Team partners with the Responsible AI team, and other people on the development and use of AI at Meta, to bolster the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/facebooks-five-pillars-of-responsible-ai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">five key pillars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Responsible AI has outlined in Meta\u2019s efforts to build AI responsibly.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Machine learning models are a significant tool in Meta\u2019s content moderation work and we are always working to improve the development and use of models across our technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta cannot resolve potential differences in user\u2019s experiences across groups if we don\u2019t understand the demographics of our community. The company, led by our Civil Rights and Responsible AI teams, is working to better understand whether the experiences of our users differ across race, while preserving their privacy. Our long-term goal is to better understand people\u2019s experiences across all protected characteristics and groups. You can read more about this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/11\/inclusive-products-through-race-data-measurement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To become a better company, we have to meaningfully engage in how we can strengthen and advance civil rights at every level, and we remain committed to doing this industry-leading work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Metas-Progress-on-Civil-Rights-Audit-Commitments.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">full report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re releasing a progress report on the recommendations from our Civil Rights 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