The activist-led ‘Real Facebook Oversight Board’ includes the ex-President of Estonia, Toomas Henrik Ilves, an outspoken critic of Facebook and Maria Ressa, the journalist currently facing imprisonment in the Philippines for cyberlibel.
Mike Isaac, Facebook oversight board upholds social network's ban of Trump, New. However, the Oversight Board has admitted it will take up to three months to make a decision and will only make judgments about content that has been removed from the platform, not what stays up.įacebook has invested $130 million in this board and announced its first board members in May, including ex-prime minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the ex-editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger. Taylor Hatmaker, Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans. Decisions on what controversial posts to remove fall on the shoulders of individual executives, hence why the Oversight Board will act like a ‘Supreme Court’ for content moderation. The move was seen as an acknowledgment of the difficulty of decision-making inside Facebook. The Oversight Board is an independent body that people can appeal to if they disagree with decisions we made about their content on Facebook or Instagram.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed last November that the Oversight Board was “an incredibly important undertaking” and would “prevent the concentration of too much decision-making within our teams” and promote “accountability and oversight”. What is the Facebook Oversight Board The board is a panel of about 20 former political leaders, human rights activists and journalists picked by Facebook to deliberate the company’s content.
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