Facebook’s quasi-independent Oversight Board said last Wednesday that the platform’s content moderation mechanism lacks consideration for local context. The board reversed Facebook’s decision to take down a post that was shared by a user in Myanmar and initially considered to be insulting toward Chinese people. Although this is the second Myanmar-related decision that has been overturned by the Oversight Board, the ruling typifies some of the issues that are ingrained within Facebook’s content moderation mechanism and can only be addressed by changing its policies. The post, published in April, includes political commentary about the Chinese government’s policy in Hong Kong...