Meta criticised over viral video left on Facebook that threatened LGBT people

Meta’s oversight board expressed serious concern over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video (Thibault Camus/AP)

Meta’s oversight board expressed serious concern on Tuesday over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay.

The video was posted in Nigeria, one of more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries where homosexuality is criminalised despite constitutional guarantees of freedoms. Such laws are often used to target and illegally arrest people suspected of being gay, with abuses against them often ignored.