Facebook's 'oversight' body overturns four takedowns and issues a slew of policy suggestions
Facebook's self-regulatory 'Oversight Board' (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases. A long time in the making, the FOB is part of Facebook's crisis PR push to distance its business from the impact of controversial content moderation decisions -- by creating a review body to handle a tiny fraction of the complaints its content takedowns attract. Announcing the first decisions today, the FOB reveals it has chosen to uphold just one of the content moderation decisions made earlier by Facebook, overturning four of the tech giant's decisions.
29 Jan 2021 ... Facebook's self-regulatory 'Oversight Board' (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost ...