Oversight Board

The Oversight Boardis an independent body which includes experts, academics, civic leaders and lawyers who analyse appeals and decisions made by Meta. The Board has raised concerns about Facebook’s penalty system for a long time now and…

A new lawsuit has accused Meta Platforms of enabling violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia to flourish on Facebook, inflaming the country's bloody civil war. The lawsuit, filed in Kenya on Tuesday, was brought by two Ethiopian researchers…

Facebook was created 18 years ago and since its inception, users didn’t have any service that allowed them to talk to the company about its moderation decisions. However, that scenario is changing as Facebook’s parent company Metais…

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The Oversight Board, the independent body focused on dealing with content moderation issues on Facebook and Instagram, is calling on Meta to review its policies on how Facebook and Instagram govern the sharing of people’s private…

Now that it has been one year, what do you think of Facebook as a platform? Facebook is a different kind of platform depending on the jurisdiction you are in. For example, say the likes of Myanmar or some countries in West…