case involves a user sharing a 2-year-old Facebook post of an alleged quote from Nazi Germany’s Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.Ī user in the U.S. In an announcement posted to the Oversight Board’s independent website on Tuesday, the committee overseeing content appeals on Facebook shared details of the first 6 cases they will be looking at. In an election year in which misinformation and conspiracy theories proliferated across social media (Facebook previously said it's labeled 180 million posts as false since March) its Oversight Board has taken on a single U.S.
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When pressed for an update on timing, a Facebook representative told Business Insider the company expects to have logistics lined up so that the board can begin hearing cases in the next few months.Facebook’s long-awaited Oversight Board, which has the power to make rulings about Facebook’s content decisions, and, based on its findings, recommend removed content be reinstated, has announced its first slate of appeals from the social networking giant’s users.Īmong this historic first? Just one U.S. The latest update from Facebook on the board's creation process was in December 2019, when Facebook director of governance and global affairs, Brent Harris, said the company is "eager to see the Oversight Board take shape and start hearing cases next year." "These reports will contain the number and type of cases reviewed by the board, the breakdown of case submissions by region, and information on Facebook's implementation and response." In his previous role, which he left in early January, Hughes served as the executive director of Article 19, a British human rights group that focuses on freedom of information and expression.Īlongside the announcement of its first director, the board's proposed bylaws were also published - which contained one particularly interesting note about transparency: "The board will release all decisions publicly on its website and issue annual reports," it says. He will lead the new oversight group as its director of oversight board administration. In the meantime, it appointed its first leader last month: Thomas Hughes. The only information about when the board will become active is "2020." "Given the size of our community," Zuckerberg said, "even if we were able to reduce errors to 1 in 100, that would still be a very large number of mistakes." As of the writing of his note, in November 2018, the company's moderation system was making, "the wrong call in more than 1 out of every 10 cases."Īs a result, Zuckerberg proposed something that no other social media company has proposed: An independent board, separate from Facebook, that can outright overrule Facebook's own decisions.įormer Article 19 executive director Thomas Hughes, right, speaking with deputy executive director Quinn McKew in 2018. And even if it were, mistakes happen - and mistakes on the scale of Facebook's size, however statistically small, have a huge impact.
Algorithms attempt to catch the majority, and tens of thousands of human moderators act as the second line of defense.īut that's not nearly enough bandwidth to address billions of users' content. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes a drink of water as he testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy.įacebook uses a combination of human and computer-based moderation tools to police its service.
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