Meta's Oversight Board Highlights Five Years of Rulings

"Five years on, the Board has made important strides for Meta's global users, bringing transparency, reasoning and a human rights perspective to decisions that were long made behind closed doors, and with little or no public-facing rationale. The model we have built brings experts from around the globe to independently review sensitive content decisions on Meta platforms with input from the public and civil society."

"The model we have built brings experts from around the globe to independently review sensitive content decisions on Meta platforms with input from the public and civil society. Our Board Members are politically, ideologically, geographically, culturally and professionally diverse. This means we can take better account of the varied contexts affecting speech and other human rights in different parts of the world."

Five years after its creation, the Board has increased transparency, provided reasoning, and incorporated a human-rights perspective into Meta's content decisions that were previously made behind closed doors with little public rationale. The Board's model assembles experts worldwide to independently review sensitive content decisions on Meta platforms, incorporating input from the public and civil society. Board Members represent political, ideological, geographic, cultural, and professional diversity. The Board's diversity enables better accounting for varied contexts affecting speech and other human rights across different regions, improving alignment of content decisions with local norms and rights considerations.

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