“Facebook said Thursday it will commit $130 million to support the efforts of its independent oversight board,” reports the Bay Area Newsgroup — though the group won’t be in place (or its members announced) until sometime in 2020.

An anonymous reader quotes their report:
In a company blog post, Brent Harris, Facebook’s director of governance and global affairs, said the company has been going through the process of creating “a new organization with independent oversight over how Facebook makes decisions on content” since Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for the board in November 2018. In September of this year, Facebook gave some details about how it was selecting board members, and set up a site where anyone could make a recommendation for a board member…

The premise behind the board’s creation is that it will be able to make final decisions regarding if content, including ads and video, should be displayed on Facebook, and will also have the power to overrule Zuckerberg on such matters.

Facebook, as a company, and users can submit cases to the board, and Facebook will be have to make public any recommendations it reaches.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot – Facebook Pledges 0 Million For Its Independent ‘Content Oversight Board’