![]() The Oversight Board is an independent body that people can appeal to if they disagree with decisions we made about content on Facebook or Instagram. ![]() If you’ve listened to this show, you've probably read a fair number of news stories-and maybe even listened to some podcast episodes-about the Facebook Oversight Board’s recent ruling on the platform’s decision to ban President Trump’s account. To stay up to date on how Meta is responding to the Oversight Board’s decisions and recommendations, please visit the Transparency Center. An oversight board for Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said it was disappointed after the social media company withdrew a request for policy guidance on content moderation related to the. ![]() Facebook has consulted with experts throughout the process of developing the Oversight Board. The board temporarily allowed Facebook to keep Trump off the platform, but criticized the slapdash way Facebook made that call and provided a long list of recommendations for Facebook to respond to. In its June 2019 report, which summarized the first stage of this consultation, Facebook outlined the feedback it had received from six in-depth workshops and 22 roundtables, attended by more than 650 people from 88 different countries. Well, now Facebook has responded-announcing that it will ban Trump from the platform for two years. ![]() And though the response hasn’t gotten as much coverage as the initial ruling, it’s arguably more important for what it says about both Facebook and the Facebook Oversight Board’s role in the future of content moderation. This week on the Lawfare Podcast's Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, Quinta Jurecic interviewed Lawfare managing editor Jacob Schulz and Arbiters of Truth co-host Evelyn Douek about Facebook’s response to the board. What did Facebook say in addition to its two-year Trump ban? Why is Evelyn grumpy about it? And what’s next for Facebook, the Oversight Board and Trump himself? #Oversight board boarddoueklawfare series Sign up to support Lawfare through our Patreon to get access to an ad-free feed of this podcast and more exclusive content. Press reports have referred to Facebook’s Oversight Board using a range of descriptors from the cynical to the ridiculous. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Oversight Board has been referred to as an elaborate structure for a supposedly independent body to reviewcontent decisions and a group of Zuckerberg’s own making.
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