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Facebook agrees to some policy changes in response to Oversight Board recommendations

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Facebook has agreed to tweak some of its policies in response to recommendations from the Oversight Board. The board issued its first round of decisions of content moderation decisions last month, in a series of rulings that overturned some of Facebo...

Facebook’s oversight board’s first judgments overturn four moderation decisions

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Facebook’s Oversight Board has today made judgments on its first five cases, which were selected for consideration on December 1st. This includes rulings on hate speech, as well as the right of users to post images of breasts without falling foul of...

Facebook’s first Oversight Board cases tackle hate speech and misinformation

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Facebook didn’t meet its goal of hearing Oversight Board cases before the US election, but it’s finally ready. The social media giant has revealed that the Board will tackle six appeal cases in its first outing, all of them prioritized based on their...

Facebook’s Oversight Board will begin hearing cases before the US election

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Faceboook has confirmed that it’s Oversight Board set up to rule on moderation disputes across the company’s platforms will begin to hear cases as early as mid-October, just ahead of the November US elections (via the Financial Times). “Since the fir...

Recommended Reading: Facebook’s new content oversight board

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We are a new board overseeing Facebook. Here’s what we’ll decide.Catalina Botero-Marino, Jamal Greene, Michael W. McConnell and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, The New York TimesFacebook announced the first members of its content oversight board this week, a...

Facebook pledges $130 million for its content oversight board

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Over the past year, Facebook has been working to put together a content oversight board. We've heard Mark Zuckerberg's vision, and Facebook shared a charter outlining its rules. Now, Facebook is committing $130 million to the effort.