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Meta Oversight Board’s Big Leap Will Make a Small Splash
An effort to adjudicate the moderation decisions of Facebook, TikTok and YouTube in Europe has several drawbacks.
The Appeals Centre will soon be open for business.
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Ever since its inception in 2020, Meta Platforms Inc.’s Oversight Board — dubbed its “Supreme Court” for content moderation decisions and policy — has been trying to assert its independence over the social media company that created and funded it.
As I’ve written before, one possible future the board explored was expanding its remit beyond just dealing with content posted on Meta’s own products and opening it up to other companies tackling similar ethical questions about freedom of speech and expression online.