{"id":23851,"date":"2021-04-14T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/facebook-instagram-users-can-now-ask-oversight-panel-to-review-decisions-not-to-remove-content.html"},"modified":"2021-04-14T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:11:38","slug":"facebook-instagram-users-can-now-ask-oversight-panel-to-review-decisions-not-to-remove-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-instagram-users-can-now-ask-oversight-panel-to-review-decisions-not-to-remove-content.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Instagram users can now ask \u2018oversight\u2019 panel to review decisions not to remove content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook\u2019s self-styled \u201cOversight Board\u201d (FOB) has announced<\/a> an operational change that looks intended to respond to criticism of the limits of the self-regulatory content-moderation decision review body: It says it\u2019s started accepting requests from users to review decisions to leave content up on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n

The move expands the FOB\u2019s remit beyond reviewing (and mostly reversing) content takedowns \u2014 an arbitrary limit that critics said aligns it with the economic incentives of its parent entity, given that Facebook\u2019s business benefits from increased engagement with content (and outrageous content drives clicks and makes eyeballs stick).<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, users have been able to appeal content to the Board which they think should be restored<\/i> to Facebook or Instagram. Now, users can also appeal content to the Board which they think should be removed<\/i> from Facebook or Instagram,\u201d the FOB writes, adding that it will \u201cuse its independent judgment to decide what to leave up and what to take down\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur decisions will be binding on Facebook,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n

The ability to request an appeal on content Facebook wouldn\u2019t take down has been added across all markets, per Facebook. But the tech giant said<\/a> it will take some \u201cweeks\u201d for all users to get access as it said it\u2019s rolling out the feature \u201cin waves to ensure stability of the product experience\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the FOB can now get individual pieces of content taken down from Facebook\/Instagram \u2014 i.e. if the Board believes it\u2019s justified in reversing an earlier decision by the company not<\/em> to remove content \u2014 it cannot make Facebook adopt any associated suggestions vis-\u00e0-vis its content moderation policies generally.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Facebook has never said it will be bound by the FOB\u2019s policy recommendations; only by the final decision made per review.<\/p>\n

That in turn limits the FOB\u2019s ability to influence the shape of the tech giant\u2019s approach to speech policing. And indeed the whole effort remains inextricably bound to Facebook, which devised and structured the FOB \u2014 writing the Board\u2019s charter and bylaws, and hand picking the first cohort of members. The company thus continues to exert inescapable pull on the strings linking its self-regulatory vehicle to its lucrative people-profiling and ad-targeting empire.<\/p>\n

The FOB getting the ability to review content \u201ckeep ups\u201d (if we can call them that) is also essentially irrelevant when you consider the ocean of content Facebook has ensured the Board won\u2019t<\/em> have any say in moderating \u2014 because its limited resources\/man-power mean it can only ever consider a fantastically tiny subset of cases referred to it for review.<\/p>\n

For an oversight body to provide a meaningful limit on Facebook\u2019s power it would need to have considerably more meaty (i.e. legal) powers; be able to freely range across all aspects of Facebook\u2019s business (not just review user generated content); and be truly independent of the adtech mothership \u2014 as well as having meaningful powers of enforcement and sanction.<\/p>\n

So, in other words, it needs to be a public body, functioning in the public interest.<\/p>\n

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Facebook\u2019s controversial Oversight Board starts reviewing content moderation cases<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Instead, while Facebook applies its army of in-house lawyers to fight actual<\/em> democratic regulatory oversight and compliance<\/a>, it has splashed out to fashion this bespoke bureaucracy that can align with its speech interests \u2014 handpicking a handful of external experts to pay to perform a content review cameo in its crisis PR drama.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, then, the FOB has mostly moved the needle in a speech-maximizing direction<\/a> so far \u2014 while expressing some frustration<\/a> at the limited deck of cards Facebook has dealt it.<\/p>\n

Most notably, the Board still has a decision pending on whether to reverse Facebook\u2019s indefinitely ban<\/a> on former U.S. President Donald Trump. If it reverses that decision Facebook users won\u2019t have any recourse to appeal the restoration of Trump\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

The only available route would, presumably, be for users to report future Trump content to Facebook for violating its policies \u2014 and if Facebook refuses to take that stuff down, users could try to request an FOB review. But, again, there\u2019s no guarantee the FOB will accept any such review requests. (Indeed, if the board chooses to reinstate Trump that may make it harder for it to accept requests to review Trump content, at least in the short term (in the interests of keeping a diverse case file, so\u2026 ).<\/p>\n

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Facebook\u2019s \u2018oversight\u2019 body overturns four takedowns and issues a slew of policy suggestions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How to ask for a review after content isn\u2019t removed<\/h2>\n

To request the FOB review a piece of content that\u2019s been left up a user of Facebook\/Instagram first has to report the content to Facebook\/Instagram.<\/p>\n

If the company decides to keep the content up Facebook says the reporting person will receive an Oversight Board Reference ID (a 10-character string that begins with \u201cFB\u201d) in their Support Inbox<\/a> \u2014 which they can use to appeal its \u201cno takedown\u201d decision to the Oversight Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are several hoops to jump through to make an appeal: Following on-screen instructions Facebook says the user will be taken to the\u00a0Oversight Board website<\/a> where they need to log in with the account to which the reference ID was issued.<\/p>\n

They will then be asked to provide responses to a number of questions about their reasons for reporting the content (to \u201chelp the board understand why you think Facebook made the wrong decision\u201d).<\/p>\n

Once an appeal has been submitted, the Oversight Board will decide whether or not to review it. The board only selects a certain number of \u201celigible appeals\u201d to review; and Facebook has not disclosed the proportion of requests the Board accepts for review vs submissions it receives \u2014 per case or on aggregate. So how much chance of submission success any user has for any given piece of content is an unknown (and probably unknowable) quantity.<\/p>\n

Users who have submitted an appeal against content that was left up can check the status of their appeal via the FOB\u2019s website \u2014 again by logging in and using the reference ID.<\/span><\/p>\n

A further limitation is time, as Facebook notes there\u2019s a time limit on appealing decisions to the FOB.<\/p>\n

\u201cBear in mind that there is a time limit on appealing decisions to the Oversight Board. Once the window to appeal a decision has expired, you will no longer be able to submit it,\u201d it writes in its Help Center<\/a>, without specifying how long users have to get their appeal in (we asked Facebook to confirm this and it\u2019s 15 days).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Facebook\u2019s Oversight Board will review the decision to suspend Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks \u2018welcome to join\u2019 if project succeeds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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