A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board

 Hello There,

I am here once again to tell you one of the best examples of evolution, yes the Facebook Oversight Board. Mark Zuckerberg while developing Facebook may not have thought of this day when he has to make a separate body to deal with content decisions, but when people started using Facebook, things started happening, Facts, False News, millions of appeals for content decisions, so to handle the grievances and unacceptable posts by a majority of individuals, a new independent body comes to existence to deal with all such appeals.

fadsan portfolio when was conceptualized, it was clear to the promoters what they want to do. They were feeling the requirement of a Website development company, the best digital marketing company. A company that can understand the requirement of the various industries.

They started their journey with few services like graphics design, digital marketing, etc.  Slowly and steadily working on various other requirements of client they keep increasing their services, kept enhancing the quality of their services understanding and processing the client’s feedback. This is the evolution of anything that exists. Make, deliver, feedback, amend and change and again deliver. It’s a nonstop evolution cycle.

Just look at the working of any mobile app development company or cloud computing or SMO Company. They all adopt the same procedure to evolve, they deliver, watch for results, change the backend algorithm, again go to market, get feedback from clients and again repeat the same cycle with more focussed working.

But as per a cloud computing Company here Facebook has a bit different story. At any given point, for any particular post, they are dealing with millions of Clients, yes us the profile owners, the Facebook users. So the matter to be dealt with has to have an amicable approach.

Concerning a mobile app development company Let us understand the factors that should be taken care of while reviewing Human Rights by the Facebook Oversight Board.

First is Listing and analyzing the human rights issues of vast variety and prioritizing the most severe cases. The second is to address individual rights and needs who may be present in a vulnerable group who may get marginalized or compromised. The third is working towards the remedy to grievances of an individual or that of the group as well. The fourth factor that the Oversight board should be fully aware of International Human Rights Standards and integrate the same in Facebook Algorithm

Facebook Oversight Board should understand that all human rights like freedom of expression, personal safety, and security, etc. will have a holistic impact from content decisions right from the Individuals to large societies or groups.

The Oversight Board can help prevent and mitigate future human rights harms through both policy recommendations to Facebook and the action, Facebook takes to implement Oversight Board decisions. Policy recommendations could include new or modified language in the Facebook Community Standards, revisions to guidance on how content moderators interpret and enforce the Community Standards, and potential expansions to the scope of the Board’s mandate itself.

Facebook understands that it is important for the Oversight Board to have a clear & firm mechanism to identify and analyze typical cases, new and surprising trends that will be seen more severe with social, political, or economic developments seen in the future. The Facebook Oversight Board will be able to take proactive decisions to address the risk and anticipation of future impact or harms.

Facebook Oversight Board has to pay sincere attention to the impact of removing content to protect human rights norms to protect free expressions. In a letter written to Facebook Oversight Board, Mark Zuckerberg clarifies how the values accompanying Facebook’s Community Standards—authenticity, safety, privacy, and dignity—are being guided by international human rights standards.

Facebook will consider factors consistent with the UNGPs while prioritizing cases to refer to the Oversight Board. The board will comprise a set of expert members from different fields and who are familiar with free expression, privacy, civic discourse, safety, and technology knowledge. Facebook will provide resources to enable the board to hear cases in different languages which are commonly used on the Facebook platform.