Facebook oversight board says it 'won't shy away' from tackling Trump-style disinformation

The independent body set up by Facebook to review decisions to remove content will eventually need to tackle the issue of how to address politicians such as Donald Trump posting disinformation online, the board’s sole Australian member has said.The oversight board is a body set up by Facebook to review select cases where Facebook’s content moderators have removed a post, but the user believes it should not have been removed. The board makes binding decisions for Facebook, meaning a post that was removed could be restored if the board says it should be.“The decision we make isn’t going to just dispose of that particular case in front of us, it’s [also] going to help us to require Facebook to change either its policy or its enforcement processes more generally,” Nic Suzor, the sole Australian member of the oversight board, told Guardian Australia.This month, the 20-member board – made up of academics, lawyers, politicians and journalists from across the world – announced the first six cases it would review over the next 90 days.One of the cases involves a two-year-old post of an alleged quote from Joseph Goebbels,  » Read More