Facebook Oversight Board Starts Hearing Cases

Facebook Oversight Board Starts Hearing Cases
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If your content is removed from Facebook or Instagram and you have exhausted your appeals with Facebook, you’ll be able to appeal your case to the Oversight Board. The Board is a global body of experts separate from Facebook that will make independent and binding decisions on the cases they choose to hear.

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg first outlined a vision for a new chapter in online governance, writing that “Facebook should not make so many important decisions about free expression and safety on our own.“ The Oversight Board is the realization of that vision, and over the next few weeks, nearly 3 billion users will have access to independent review of difficult content decisions.

Facebook has committed to enforcing the Board’s decisions on individual pieces of content, and to carefully considering and transparently responding to any policy recommendations. The Board will make decisions on which cases to take, selecting from both cases appealed by users and cases referred by Facebook, and they will do so based on their chosen criteria.