Facebook Oversight Board
Added on 2021-06-15
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2FACEBOOK OVERSIGHT BOARDFacebook Oversight Board was launched as a significant element of a governance channel on content moderation. It was to address some challenges caused by the widespread hatespeech and misinformation circulated through Facebook. There needed to be combined responsesfrom Facebook companies and governments (Devitt et al., 2021). Therefore, Facebook's approach is set in Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a new independent system that can address governance and enforcement issues. Yes, the Oversight Board helps Facebook achieve the goal of being a democratizing force for putting power in people's hands. It provides a way for people to challenge Facebook's decisions through an independent body whose decisions will be transparent and binding. Zuckerberg emphasized independence and oversight that decisions made are of best interest to the community and the company.Facebook is creating a platform that incorporates human rights tribunals with direct jurisdiction over billions of people with the ability to impose sanctions and control practical development of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech. In most countries and territories, Facebook is the basis of conducting global operations (Devitt et al., 2021). It has become a leading channel of communication, expression, and information for a larger populationglobally, together with its importance in the share of global markets in advertising. Oversight Board's launch has made many people believe that Facebook will start to be more responsible and deliver effective measures to address adverse impacts on freedom of expression, human rights, social and political issues (Devitt et al., 2021). The Oversight Board is the most important and most potent operational grievance mechanism set up by any company.The by laws state that the oversight board would receive complaints from workers and people in the community or those affected by Facebook's operations seeking some remediation. It takes an appeal mechanism that primarily reviews decisions that Facebook staff has removed
3FACEBOOK OVERSIGHT BOARDfrom the platform (A Bayesian social platform for inclusive and evidence-based decision making, 2019). The review may b from users disconnected with removal decisions or from Facebook staff who have removed the content but think the issue raises a broader policy issue forthe board to consider. Still, these systems do not contemplate the review of content that has not been removed and provides no remedies to a user or a non-user. The board comprises about 4o experts who are independent and experts on a broad range of important fields such as gender, social, religion, and politics.The board took in some activists as a step in the direction of being transparent. Still, the critics say its powers are much limited to take on the big problem Facebook has with controlling the spread of hate speech and misinformation. The board can only rule on posts that have been wrongly noted down, not on those that are allowed to remain. It can only interpret Facebooks' current rules and not set new rules (A Bayesian social platform for inclusive and evidence-based decision making, 2019). The board has no potential power to make requests for internal documents from Facebook, like in complaints made about staff decision-making. To an account, the board has only selected six cases out of more than 20,000 reported by Facebook users since the submissions were opened in October.The goal of the board was to set precedents via ruling on cases that are likely to affect multiple users. Members of the human rights group do not believe that the board will make any difference concerning the platform's policy and behaviors. The oversight board has achieved the goals and objectives that it was set to accomplish of ensuring that the democracy force of puttingpower in the hands of people is maintained. They also aimed to include at least 40 people aroundthe world to discuss the issues that may arise ahead of the board. Therefore, various matters referred to as grey issues were raised by people and mostly Facebook users concerning the
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