Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content left up on platform

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Facebook users will now be able to ask the company’s independent oversight board to rule on content that has been left up on the platform, as well as what was taken down, in a key expansion of the board’s scope.

Before this change, Facebook and Instagram users who had exhausted the appeals process could send cases of removed content to the board, but only the company itself could ask the board to review content left up on the site.In the coming weeks, the oversight board is also expected to decide whether to uphold Facebook’s indefinite suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump, imposed after the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.

The board said in a blog post it had received more than 300,000 user appeals since opening its doors in October. Its website says it has ruled on seven cases, announcing the first in January.

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