Category: Oversight Board

Oversight Board Tells Meta to Be More Transparent About COVID Censorship

April 22, 2023
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Meta’s Oversight Board, which reviews the company’s content decisions, has asked the tech firm to “increase transparency around government requests” regarding suppressing COVID-19 content. In a statement Thursday, the Oversight Board noted that concerns were raised about Meta reviewing COVID-19-related content at the behest of governments during the height of the pandemic. “This is particularly problematic…

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Oversight Board Urges Meta to Be More Transparent About COVID Censorship

April 22, 2023
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Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent panel that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram selected to deliberate its content decisions, has asked the tech firm to “increase transparency around government requests” regarding suppressing COVID-19 content. The Oversight Board noted that concerns were raised about Meta reviewing COVID-19-related content at the behest of governments during the height of the pandemic,…

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Oversight Board Urges Meta to Be More Transparent About COVID-19 Censorship

April 22, 2023
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Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent panel that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram selected to deliberate its content decisions, has asked the tech firm to “increase transparency around government requests” regarding suppressing COVID-19 content. The Oversight Board noted that concerns were raised about Meta reviewing COVID-19-related content at the behest of governments during the height of the pandemic,…

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Facebook Whistleblower to Meet With Facebook’s Oversight Board

October 11, 2021
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Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen is set to meet with the social network’s oversight board in the coming weeks, the company announced on Monday. Haugen, a former a product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team, on Oct. 3 revealed that she was the individual who who provided the internal documents for a Sept….

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Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Overrules It, Orders Banned Posts Restored

February 1, 2021
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Facebook’s new “Supreme Court” ruled against Facebook 4 out of 5 times in its first batch of content-moderation rulings released to the public. The company’s recently staffed Oversight Board enjoys an independent funding stream and the company cannot fire its members. Facebook has vowed to obey the board’s rulings unless contrary to law. Facebook currently…

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