Facebook ‘supreme court’ begins daunting task on content disputes

The Facebook Oversight Board, created at Zuckerberg’s urging with the authority to overrule him and other top executives, said it is prioritising cases that have ‘potential to affect lots of users around the world, are of critical importance to public discourse or raise important questions about Facebook’s policies’. — Bloomberg

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook’s “supreme court” tasked with deciding on allowing or removing sensitive and harmful content has begun operations, with a backlog of some 20,000 cases already piling up for the expert panel.

The independent panel, formally known as the Facebook Oversight Board, is considering cases involving Nazi propaganda, hate speech, nudity, pandemic misinformation, and dangerous individuals or organisations.