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Facebooks self-styled oversight board selects first circumstances, most coping with hate speech

A Fb -funded body that the tech huge set up to distance itself from tough and more than likely reputation-damaging content material subject material moderation picks has presented the main package of circumstances it might take into accout. In a press release on its internet website online the Fb Oversight Board (FOB) says it sifted by the use of mo…
A Facebook -funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider. In a press release on its website the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) says it sifted through mo…

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  3. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  4. "Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you dont". (January 26, 2021)
  5. "Reset yer counters: Facebook has had to fess up to yet another major ad reporting fail. This one looks like it could be costly for the tech giant to put right not least because its another dent in its reputation for self reporting". (November 26, 2020)
  6. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  7. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  8. "Facebooks lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month". (April 14, 2021)
  9. "Facebooks head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order it to suspend data transfers to the US following a landmark Court of Justice ruling in July that has cemented the schism between US surveillance laws and EU privacy rights". (September 23, 2020)
  10. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
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