Meta receives more than a million appeals over banned posts.

In its first year, Meta’s system for appeals against its decisions to delete content from Facebook and Instagram received almost 1.1 million cases.

Most of the contested posts, which were from the US, Canada, or Europe, had been deleted due to violence, hate speech, or bullying.

The Oversight Board rejected Meta 14 times out of the 20 cases for which it issued decisions.

One case was the removal of female breast photos from a breast cancer page.

Others included a picture of a dead kid next to text debating whether Donald Trump’s exclusion was appropriate in the wake of the Capitol Hill protests and China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims.

The board overturned Meta’s decision to remove the first two examples, but maintained its decision to prohibit Mr Trump – although it disputed the “indefinite” time term.

It had initially picked 130 cases to investigate, but Meta conceded up front that it had been mistaken on 51 of those occasions.

Thomas Hughes, a board member, stated that the organisation looked for “emblematic” cases with “problematic features” to take on.

He added that the categories of hate speech, violence and bullying were “difficult-to-judge issues” – especially for automated systems.

Context is crucial in many of such situations, he continued.