Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-meta-faecbook-video-lgbtq-human-rights-7ba99f53c18bb962dba49f1488162725
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Meta's oversight board expressed serious concern Tuesday over the company's failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay.
The video was posted in Nigeria, one of more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries where homosexuality is criminalized by laws that garner broad public support despite constitutional guarantees of freedoms. Such laws are often used to target and illegally arrest people suspected of being gay, with abuses against them often ignored.