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Germany Fines Facebook over “Hate Speech” Reporting
July 03, 2019
Politico reports that the German government has fined Facebook €2 million for failing to adequately report the number of complaints the social-media giant received relating to “hate speech” on its platform.
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Standard Setters Publish Shared Principles of Corporate Reporting
July 03, 2019
A group of organizations that provide standards for corporate reporting, including the Global Reporting Initiative, has published a paper stressing the common, “fundamental” principles they believe must undergird all corporate reporting and the need for businesses to demonstrate accountability to a variety of “stakeholders.”
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UN-Business Partnerships Rile Activists
July 02, 2019
Harris Gleckman of Benchmark Environment Consulting warns that the UN’s recently agreed partnership with the World Economic Forum to promote “sustainable development” is the latest example of the international organization’s inclusion of multinational companies in the global governance system at the expense of democratic processes.
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Facebook Audit Spotlights Alleged Rights Impacts
July 02, 2019
Facebook’s recent update on its civil rights audit, led by a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union, highlights the social-media giant’s broad acceptance that it must report on and address the alleged influence of content on its platform on the global human rights agenda, including through the promulgation of “hate speech.”
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NGO Pushes Businesses Deploying AI to Prevent Rights Violations
July 01, 2019
Dunstan Allison-Hope and Michaela Lee of the nongovernmental organization BSR write that the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) require companies deploying artificial intelligence (AI), and not just companies developing it, to address their BHR impacts relating to privacy and discrimination.
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