Meta oversight board left waiting for answers on celebrity rules


The Oversight Board already sent questions to Meta Platforms Inc, the Facebook owner, but received unsatisfactory answers, Thorning-Schmidt said. — AFP

The co-chair of the board that oversees Facebook’s content moderation said the social media giant has failed to to be transparent about how it manages posts by famous people.

Former Denmark Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, on the external Oversight Board that acts as a de-facto Supreme Court for appealing Facebook’s decisions about what posts to take down, said the company hasn’t explained how famous people get protection for their content that others don’t. The Oversight Board already sent questions to Meta Platforms Inc, the Facebook owner, but received unsatisfactory answers, Thorning-Schmidt said on Bloomberg Quicktake’s Emma Barnett Meets show.

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