Facebook’s Oversight Board on Thursday issued its first round of decisions, overturning several decisions by the company to remove posts for violating policies on hate speech, violence and other issues.
The first-ever rulings, which Facebook has said it will abide by, come in the run-up to a far more consequential decision the board will make in the weeks ahead: Whether to overturn Facebook’s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s account in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots in Washington.
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Source: Facebook’s ‘Oversight Board’ overturns 4 cases in first rulings