Oversight Board – "big step for Facebook, small (side) step for humankind"

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) sees positive aspects to Facebook’s creation of an Oversight Board - of which the first 20 members have just been named – with the aim of lending more transparency to its decisions to allow or remove content, but regrets that, given the scale of the problem, it will be little more than cosmetic. On 6 May, Facebook unveiled the names of the first 20 renowned experts who are to members of this Oversight Board, a panel charged with choosing problematic cases to review, from among those submit

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