Facebook's rules for new oversight board leave the company firmly in control

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Facebook just unveiled proposed bylaws for its independent oversight board. The 46-page document makes clear that Facebook is still firmly in control.

In a 46-page document, Facebook outlined the powers and limitations of the board, stating that the company is committing to fund the trust that will support the board for six years.

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California.on Tuesday unveiled its proposed bylaws for the company's oversight board — a sort of "supreme court" that can theoretically overturn content moderation decisions — but it's filled with loopholes and binds Facebook to very little concrete action.

In a 46-page document released Tuesday, Facebook outlined the bylaws of that board, establishing its powers and its broad limitations. These bylaws make clear that Facebook is still firmly in control.-- The following types of content are not available for the board's review, unless reassessed in the future by Facebook:

This means that the decisions made by the oversight board will, by default, apply narrowly to the specific piece of content that is being reviewed, and will not create any precedents that Facebook has to follow in the future for similar types of violations. The company retains final say on whether or not to broadly apply the decisions of the board.

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