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Facebook Oversight Board to launch in October

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Facebook’s long-delayed independent Oversight Board plans to launch in mid-late October, just before the November U.S. presidential election, although a board member said he did not know whether it would hear cases related to the contest. Conway G. Gittens has more.

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