Photo by David Martin on Unsplash [Download]

Facebooks oversight physique overturns 4 takedowns and points a slew of coverage strategies

Facebook’s self-regulatory ‘Oversight Board’ (FOB) has delivered its first batch of possible choices on contested content material subject matter moderation possible choices just about two months after opting for its first instances. A long time inside the making, the FOB is a section of Facebook’s crisis PR push to distance its bu…
Facebook’s 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. A long time in the making, the FOB is part of Facebook’s crisis PR push to distance its bu…

Original article
Original article
Author: Natasha Lomas

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

Natasha Lomas has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "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". (December 1, 2020)
  2. "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)
  3. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  4. "The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned". (December 11, 2020)
  5. "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)
  6. "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)
  7. "Irelands data protection watchdog, the DPC, has sent Facebook a preliminary order to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter and including a confirmation from Facebooks VP of global affairs, Nick Clegg". (September 9, 2020)
  8. "Some more internal emails Facebook really doesnt want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may ". (February 18, 2021)
  9. "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)
  10. "Austrias Supreme Court has dismissed Facebooks appeal in a long running speech takedown case ruling it must remove references to defamatory comments made about a local politician worldwide for as long as the injunction lasts". (November 12, 2020)
Posted on  , , ,