After facing severe criticism for its policies regarding posts, photos and videos, Facebook unveiled its blueprint on Tuesday for an independent oversight board, where people can appeal to review company’s content decisions. Facebook gave details on structure of oversight board and its relationship to Facebook in form of a charter. “ content policies we write and decisions we make everyday matter to people. That’s why we always have to strive to keep getting better. Oversight Board will make Facebook more accountable and improve our decision-making. This charter is a critical step towards what we hope will become a model for our industry,” said Nick Clegg, VP Global Affairs and Communications, Facebook.

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Composition of Board

Facebook said that y will appoint a ‘diverse and qualified group’ of 40 board members and company will t name entire board. board members will serve a term of three years. Initially, Facebook will select members for a small group and group will furr select ditional members. 40-member panel will act as a ‘Supreme Court’ or appellate tribunal maintaining its independence.

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“One of most important projects I've worked on over past couple of years is establishing an independent Oversight Board that our community can appeal to on some of hardest questions about what content is allowed on our services,” wrote Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook. “We are responsible for enforcing our policies every day and we make millions of content decisions every week. But ultimately I don't believe private companies like ours should be making so many important decisions about speech on our own. That's why I've called for governments to set clearer standards around harmful content. It's also why we're w giving people a way to appeal our content decisions by establishing independent Oversight Board,” he ded.

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Prioritisation of cases

For w, independent Oversight board will begin its operations by hearing facebook initiated cases but later on, its users will also be able to refer cases to board demanding review. According to Facebook newsroom, board can request that its decision be applied to or instances or reproductions of same content on Facebook. In such cases, Facebook will do so, to extent technically and operationally feasible. Facebook will prioritize its cases on basis of significance and difficulty. While 'significance' will include factors like severity, scale, and public discourse, difficulty factor will include disputed, uncertain and competing cases.

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