Arab News, Musk’s X Corp. loses lawsuit against hate speech watchdog, 24 Mar 2024 “Meta’s Oversight Board on Tuesday issued a directive calling on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word shaheed, which translates to martyr in English.”
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