Following Mark Zuckerberg’s stated commitment to improving his company’s public accountability measures nearly a year ago, Facebook announced detailed plans last month for its new Oversight Board. The body, which the company says will comprise 40 independent experts who will serve in three-year terms, has been described by many as Facebook’s own Supreme Court as it will adjudicate questions of content policy on the company’s platforms as they arise. In a new book, two New York Times journalists report that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often doesnt see the downside of the social media platform he created. 6 from the former President severely violated Facebook’s Community Standards. The board is designed to have notable independence in these judgments it can overrule Zuckerberg himself. The board upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts, writing in its decision that two posts on Jan. On its surface, the Oversight Board is a remarkable answer to a novel problem. The Oversight Board is a body that makes consequential precedent -setting content moderation decisions (see Table of decisions below) on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, in a form of 'platform self-governance'. The firm, which enjoys well over two billion users across the globe, has seen a broad array of serious problems related to the scaled, frictionless dissemination of content that is its core consumer service. Yet, despite its importance, Facebook can be a challenging site to manage. It’s also an incredibly important website for businesses, as it houses a large portion of online traffic. 2019 and finalized that document nine months. The deep public concern related to these issues is justified, and accordingly the Board’s duties include listening to users with grievances relating to them and deciding when to bring the hammer down on offending users or posts.īut we must ask: is the board really set up to succeed? Across Instagram, WhatsApp, and the principal Facebook platform, that content has come, inevitably, to encompass not only cat videos and baby photos but also hateful conduct, the incitement of terrorists in politically unstable locales, the spread of disinformation, and the systemic entrenchment of algorithmic bias. Introduction: Facebook is a powerful social media platform and one of the most well-known brands in the world. 2020, Facebook unveiled the Oversight Boards bylaws, which spell out the procedural rules of the review board. It is not poor execution that is responsible for the company’s general troubles in content moderation - it is the business model behind the company’s platforms itself. This same model lies at the center of the consumer internet as a whole and is based on maximizing consumer engagement and injecting ads throughout our digital experience. It relies on collecting personal data and on sophisticated algorithms that curate social feeds and target those ads.
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