Facebook Inc. on Thursday released the findings from its consultations with outside experts into its content review process, providing a glimpse into how its plans for a proposed “external oversight board” might take shape.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said decisions about acceptable speech on Facebook’s suite of social networks – used by some 2.4 billion people worldwide – should not rest in the company’s hands alone.The company will finalize the board’s charter in August, it said. Other popular proposals were that the board should be able to choose its own cases; that board decisions should establish precedent for future cases; and that the board should have the power to influence Facebook’s content policies.
Facebook has long faced criticism for doing too little to block hate speech, incitements to violence, bullying and other types of content that violate its “community standards.”