One video posted on Facebook shows a group of men on motorbikes who presumably belong to a colectivo. The caption urges people to “kill those damn colectivos.” Meta removed the post for violating its rules against inciting high-severity violence.
A second video on Instagram, which shows a woman telling members of a colectivo, “Go to hell, I hope they kill you all,” was not removed because Meta’s content moderators found it did not include a call to action.
These posts, which have been flagged for potentially violating Meta’s rules, raise “critical questions about the balance the company must strike in moderating posts that could contain vital political criticism and raise awareness of human rights abuses in a repressive environment,” the board’s press release states. At the same time, the posts “may also employ violent language during such a volatile period.”