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Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first decisions, overturning Facebook's decision in four out of five cases

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    Akir
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    Didn't Facebook announce this oversight board something like two years ago? Why are these decisions just coming out now?

    Didn't Facebook announce this oversight board something like two years ago? Why are these decisions just coming out now?

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      1. Akir
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        Yes, I saw that, but I don't understand why it took them nearly four months to decide on anything, and why it took so long for them to even start accepting cases to begin with. So I did some...

        Yes, I saw that, but I don't understand why it took them nearly four months to decide on anything, and why it took so long for them to even start accepting cases to begin with.

        So I did some googling and apparently the first members of this board were only announced in May of last year. But I was right about this being an old idea - it was first proposed all the way back in 2018.

        Well, at least it wasn't an entirely empty promise.

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