The board’s verdict is expected within the next two months. Once the five reach their decision, the broader board must pass the decision in a majority vote. Capitol in early January.įive of the group’s 20 members will evaluate the Trump case, though the board will not disclose which members evaluate which cases. “Content moderation is a huge challenge for many platforms, and the Oversight Board believes fewer highly consequential decisions should be made by companies alone,” Hunter-Torricke said.įacebook’s ‘oversight’ body overturns four takedowns and issues a slew of policy suggestionsįacebook’ Oversight Board is currently facing the hugely consequential case of whether to reinstate former President Donald Trump, who was removed from Facebook after inciting the violent mob that attacked the U.S. When asked if the Oversight Board sees its future as an external governing body for social networks beyond Facebook, Hunter-Torricke told TechCrunch that the group was created “to test a model for online governance that could serve many other services over the long term, not just Facebook.” TechCrunch reached out to the Oversight Board to ask if the group sees its future as an external governing body for social networks beyond Facebook. It’s not something we necessarily know the final destination yet but we are looking to test this model and refine it further.” “… As we build up our expertise and our body of experience in dealing with Facebook I expect there will be more capabilities that come onto the board,” Hunter-Torricke said. He added that the board intends to “evolve and grow” using what it learns from handling Facebook moderation cases. “This is a model that we’re testing here to see if this is the kind of institution that can have an impact in one sphere of Facebook and the content moderation challenges they face,” Hunter-Torricke said. Hunter-Torricke, who spent four years working on the Facebook executive communications team and served as a speechwriter for both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, also hinted at a more expansive vision for the board. “A lot of people want to immediately dismiss the Oversight Board and look for something new,” Oversight Board Head of Communications Dex Hunter-Torricke said. The group has come under criticism from skeptics wary that its origins with Facebook make real autonomy from the company impossible.
Throughout the panel, those involved with the Oversight Board defended the project. Those comments may capture broader aspirations for Facebook’s Oversight Board, which refers to itself only as the “Oversight Board” without an explicit reference to Facebook on its website. That in itself… I don’t hesitate to call it historic.” “For the first time in history, we actually have content moderation being done outside one of the big social media platforms. “Until now, content moderation was basically done by the last person at Facebook or Twitter as we have seen - either Mark Zuckerberg or the other platform directors,” Thorning-Schmidt said. Thorning-Schmidt emphasized that a broader vision for this kind of moderation body would happen well in the future, but the board’s current mission was to move away from policy decisions getting made in a “closed box” at the company. The board co-chair said that if the project proves to be a success, “other platforms and other tech companies are more than welcome to join and be part of the oversight that we will be able to provide.”
In a conversation hosted by the Carnegie Endowment Thursday, Oversight Board co-chair and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt painted a more expansive vision for the group that could go beyond making policy decisions for Facebook. The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead.
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