Evaluating the Facebook Oversight Board

Lately, the ‘Facebook Oversight Board’ and other private mechanisms of human rights accountability have been established. The Oversight Board of Facebook was created to review the lawfulness of certain ‘emblematic’ content moderation decisions taken by the social media platform. The Board comprises 20 representatives of civil society, including academics, human rights experts, and journalists. It is one of the first independent private bodies to oversee human rights issues on the internet. The research aims to assess the function and experience of this body in its first years.