An overview of the five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases that it hears have generally had limited impact
Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
Meta rejects the Oversight Board's recommendation to suspend former Cambodian PM Hun Sen's account because doing so would “not be consistent with our policies”
but, in fairness, it's not straightforward. — Vittoria Elliott (who isn't active on Bluesky, AFAIK) has written very thoughtfully about the tradeoffs of a decision like this in Wired: www.wired.com/...
Meta will demote content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram globally and rolls out encrypted Instagram DMs in Ukraine and Russia
a rate of 1.3 billion views a day, or 928,000 views a minute https://www.wired.com/... Aisha S Gani / @aishagani : Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who see posts inciting ...
Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules
For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies” like Facebook, Twit...
Facebook responds to the Oversight Board's 17 recommendations and commits to action on 11 of them, most of which focus on increasing transparency
very few places where Facebook says it “has done X,” lots of places where they vaguely gesture toward “ing” something https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt / @mattk : Being selective s...
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues
“We want to make sure the content people … Steven Levy / Wired : Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg Chinmayi Arun / Just Security : The Facebook Oversight Board: An Experime...