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Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content material left up on platform

Facebook consumers will now be able to ask the company's unbiased oversight board to rule on content material that has been left up on the platform, now not merely content material that has been taken down, in a key enlargement of the panel's scope.
Facebook users will now be able to ask the company's independent oversight board to rule on content that has been left up on the platform, not just content that has been taken down, in a key expansion of the panel's scope.

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Author: Elizabeth Culliford

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