The board’s recommendations touch on how we enforce our policies, how we inform users of actions we’ve taken and what they can do about it, and additional transparency reporting. The size and scope of the board’s recommendations go beyond the policy guidance that we first anticipated when we set up the board, and several require multi-month or multi-year investments. We are implementing fully or in part 14 recommendations, still assessing the feasibility of implementing three, and taking no action on one. In the first quarter of 2021, the board issued 18 recommendations in six cases. Our Progress on Non-binding Recommendations From November 2020 through March 31, 2021, we referred 26 content decisions to the board, and the board selected three: a case about supposed COVID-19 cures a case about a veiled threat based on religious beliefs and a case about the decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump’s account. As with appeals, the board’s decisions are binding. We refer the most significant and difficult content decisions to the board, and the board has sole discretion to accept or decline those cases. įacebook teams with expertise on our content policies, our enforcement processes, and cultural context from regions around the world review the candidate cases and provide feedback on their significance and difficulty. We discussed how we prioritize content decisions for referral to the board in our Newsroom. Additionally, we look for content decisions that raise questions about current policies or their enforcement, with strong arguments on both sides for either removing or leaving up the content under review. We refer cases involving issues that are severe, large-scale, and/or important for public discourse. While the board notes when cases have been referred by Facebook, we haven’t previously disclosed details about the cases we referred to the board that were not selected. In addition to providing users with direct access to appeal content decisions to the board, we regularly and proactively identify some of the most significant and difficult content decisions we’ve made on our platform and ask the board to review them. They are meant to hold us accountable to the board and the public. These quarterly updates are designed to provide regular check-ins on the progress of this long-term work, while sharing more about how we approach these challenges. Today, we’re publishing our first quarterly update, covering Q1 2021, which provides 1) information about cases that Facebook has referred to the board and 2) an update on our progress implementing the board’s recommendations. When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board’s recommendations.
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