After seemingly endless announcements heralding the arrival of the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) over the past 18 months, the board has, at last, released its first batch of decisions…
“Lawfare recently published an analysis of how long it takes legal systems to come to decisions in hate speech cases: In many places months pass, if not years. The FOB’s decisions, brief and extra-legal as they may be, resemble this decision-making model far more closely than the front-line content moderator who has seconds to make a call or the choices confronting a platform content moderation systems designer.”
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