Facebook today announced the first 20 members of its previously announced Oversight Board, which will act as a “Supreme Court" for the platform, on decisions about how content is moderated on Instagram and Facebook.
While the Board’s purview covers only these two platforms right now, Facebook may increase this to its other platforms, like WhatsApp and others in future.
The Board will be looking at disputes about Posts, Pages, Profiles, Groups and even Ads on Facebook. It will also influence Facebook’s overall policy around content sharing through the decisions it makes, and operates over and above Facebook’s current moderation methods, which include artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and human moderators.