As part of the new process, the panel will establish procedures including privacy protections for users seeking takedown requests. — AFP
NEW YORK: Facebook’s independent Oversight Board announced on April 13 it would start accepting requests to remove “harmful content” that users believe has been wrongly allowed to remain on the leading social network.
The move has the potential to vastly expand the work of the so-called “supreme court” of Facebook, which up to now had been tasked with reviewing instances of whether content was improperly taken down from Facebook or Instagram.
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