Windows 10: New Facebook Oversight Board announces its first members

Brink · May 6, 2020

Today, Facebookâs new Oversight Board announces its first members, marking a fundamental change in the way some of the most difficult and significant decisions around content on our platforms will be made.

As Mark Zuckerberg put it when he first outlined his blueprint for a new system for content governance and enforcement, âFacebook should not make so many important decisions about free expression and safety on our own.â With our size comes a great deal of responsibility and while we have always taken advice from experts on how to best keep our platforms safe, until now, we have made the final decisions about what should be allowed on our platforms and what should be removed. And these decisions often are not easy to make â most judgments do not have obvious, or uncontroversial, outcomes and yet many of them have significant implications for free expression.

Thatâs why we have created and empowered a new group to exercise independent judgment over some of the most difficult and significant content decisions. In doing so, weâve sought input from both critics and supporters of Facebook, hosting a global consultation process of workshops and roundtables with more than 650 people in 88 different countries, that resulted in:

Release of a final charter, which establishes of the boardâs structure, scope and authority;

Creation of the Oversight Board Trust to safeguard the boardâs ability to make independent decisions and recommendations;

Publication of the boardâs bylaws, which outline its operational procedures;

Hiring of the boardâs director, who will lead the boardâs administration and staff; and

Creation of a recommendations portal, through which the board can accept nominations and applications from anyone interested in serving as a member.

Oversight Board Members

The members announced today reflect a wide range of views and experiences. They have lived in over 27 countries, speak at least 29 languages and are all committed to the mission of the Oversight Board. We expect them to make some decisions that we, at Facebook, will not always agree with â but thatâs the point: they are truly autonomous in their exercise of independent judgment. We also expect that the boardâs membership itself will face criticism. But its long-term success depends on it having members who bring different perspectives and expertise to bear.

The Selection Process

Facebook helped kick off the member selection process by choosing four co-chairs, who have since been working with us to select the additional 16 members announced today. Membership selection will continue in this way until the board has selected up to 40 members, at which point it alone will take responsibility for selection of members in future. The recommendation portal remains open for additional suggestions.

The members contract directly with the Oversight Board, are not Facebook employees, and cannot be removed by Facebook.

Our Commitment

For our part, Facebook will implement the boardâs decisions unless doing so could violate the law, and will respond constructively and in good faith to policy guidance put forth by the board.

The board wonât be able to hear every case we or the public might want it to hear, but we look forward to working with the board to ensure that its scope grows over time. As it does, we know the board will play an increasingly important role in setting precedent and direction for content policy at Facebook. And in the long term, we hope its impact extends well beyond Facebook, and serves as a springboard for similar approaches to content governance in the online sphere.

As always, we remain hugely grateful to everyone who has lent their time, energy, and expertise to this first-of-its-kind project.
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Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/we...ersight-board/

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GJSNeptune · May 6, 2020

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zekrahminator · May 6, 2020

Facebook Staff Caught Spying on Members

While Facebook prides itself in being one of the few social networking sites to respect the privacy of all members, some staff members recently decided to abuse that trust. Said employees were caught analyzing profiles they had no right to look at, reading private messages, and otherwise spying on/invading the privacy of unsuspecting members. Facebook caught on to this violation of trust when members began writing in complaining about unknown people viewing their profiles. Facebook administrators are currently investigating the situation, and will fire those that consider spying on members to be "a perk".

Source: The Inquirer

hacker111 · May 6, 2020

Facebook Staff Caught Spying on Members

NICE JOB

While Facebook prides itself in being one of the few social networking sites to respect the privacy of all members, some staff members recently decided to abuse that trust. Said employees were caught analyzing profiles they had no right to look at, reading private messages, and otherwise spying on/invading the privacy of unsuspecting members. Facebook caught on to this violation of trust when members began writing in complaining about unknown people viewing their profiles. Facebook administrators are currently investigating the situation, and will fire those that consider spying on members to be "a perk".

Source: The Inquirer
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