Facebook starts Oversight Board for users to appeal content removal

Published October 22, 2020 7:31pm ET



Facebook’s Oversight Board has begun allowing users to appeal the removal of content.

“Starting today, when someone disagrees with our decision to take down a piece of content and has exhausted our existing appeals process, they can appeal their case to the Oversight Board,” Facebook wrote Thursday, five months after the social media company welcomed a diverse group of 20 members to the board.

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