The Facebook Oversight Board issues first rulings since its 2018 creation

Published February 5, 2021 4:00am ET



The Facebook Oversight Board recently filed its first judgments regarding content moderation on the social media platform on an international level. Not only does the board help form the policies of what gets banned on Facebook, but it is the Big Tech giant’s attempt at taking the need to legislate content out of its own hands.

The Oversight Board was announced in 2018 by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a separate entity that would handle decisions involving content moderation. The board selected its 20 members in 2020 from an assortment of people with backgrounds in media, law, and international policy before starting operations in October that same year.

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