Oversight Board

Prime Minister Hun Sen has backed down from threats to cut off access to Facebook in Cambodia, even as he declared the company's representatives would no longer be welcome in the country.The announcement late Friday night came after…

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday he could block access to Facebook in Cambodia, after the company said it would remove a video in which he threatened to beat up political opponents.The warning came ahead of a July 23 election that has…

Last Updated: June 17, 2023, 01:32 ISTThe logo of Meta Platforms is seen in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022. Picture taken May 22, 2022. (Reuters File Photo)Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter came under immense pressure to…

Facebook parent Meta’s Oversight Board said on Wednesday in a blog post that it has renewed a second term of the 17 board members it appointed in 2020, including three co-chairs, beginning April 1. Subsequently, Meta will be withdrawing…

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…