The social networking site Facebook's Oversight Board, set up to monitor its own content and review the removal or removal of controversial content, has begun work.
Facebook formed an independent board in May this year, called the Oversight Board, and initially selected 20 members from different countries.
The board also includes Nighat Dad, head of the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) from Pakistan and a social activist.
Also on the board are Yemen's human rights activist, journalist and Nobel laureate Tawakkul Kirmani, former European Prime Minister Hayley Thorning-Schmidt, former US Federal Court Judge Michael McNoil, and former editor of the British newspaper The Guardian, Alan Rasberger. And 20 politicians, jurists, academics, writers, journalists and human rights activists from around the world, including Colombian educationist Catalina Boutiro.
The board is being called the Supreme Court of Facebook. The board will function like a court and Facebook will have to accept its decisions.
The Board will, in accordance with the rules and regulations, independently monitor the content posted on Facebook and decide what kind of content should be published on Facebook and what kind of content should be blocked.
The board will also make decisions about publishing content on Instagram, including Facebook, and will provide Facebook with recommendations and lists on what content can be blocked and what content cannot be blocked.
The board will decide in the context of access to information, ethics and other important issues, including international law, human rights and state law, what content cannot be published on Facebook or Instagram and what content is blocked.
Catalina Boutiro Marino, co-chair of the Oversight Board, said her body was now ready to review applications, but added that her team would not be able to review every complaint.
According to Catalina Boutiro Marino, due to the high number of complaints and requests, the Oversight Board will only consider key requests and will consider requests that involve a large number of consumers, countries or regions.
According to him, the board will hear petitions, especially on an emergency basis, in which the removal or publication of any material will affect a large number.
