Oversight Board braced for onslaught of cases concerning issues including blasphemy and hate speech
Facebook users can now appeal to the company’s quasi-independent Oversight Board to get bad posts removed, the body has announced, in a large expansion of its role just three months after it issued its first findings.
From Tuesday, the board, which comprises 20 luminaries from the worlds of law, media and academia and includes a former editor of the Guardian and a former prime minister of Denmark, will now hear appeals from users who tried and failed to get Facebook or Instagram to remove posts.
