PinnedQ1 2023 Quarterly Harms Report Shows Meta Shareholders Making Sizable Investment in Anti-Abortion Activism, President Trump’s Re-elect.As Facebook tallies its Q1 dollars, Meta shareholders also fund the continued evisceration of global human rights across Meta’s platforms. 26 April 2023 — As Meta today releases its Q1 earnings for 2023, the Real Facebook Oversight Board has summarized the harms globally by Meta across its platforms this quarter…Meta2 min readMeta2 min read
PinnedReal Facebook Oversight Board Issues Seven Urgent Demands of Meta to Protect 2022 US ElectionUrgent Action Needed By Meta to Safeguard 2022 U.S. Election, Halt Flood of Disinformation and Extremist Content 18 October — With increasing reports showing that Meta is unprepared and unwilling to take the steps necessary to safeguard the 2022 U.S. …2 min read2 min read
May 22Meta Fails Yet Again To Protect Users Data in Major New €1.3B GDPR Order22 May 2023 — Today’s announcement by the Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) ordering Facebook to cease transatlantic data transfers from the E.U. and U.S. and imposition of a major fine reflects the company’s continuous failure to secure the data of its users and comply with regulators. Meta is one…Meta1 min readMeta1 min read
Apr 27New Open-Source Research Tool The Facebook Receipts Launches, Reveals Staggering Breadth of Meta’s Influence on the 118th CongressProject Tracks FOIAs, Court Cases, and Global Harms from Meta; Most Comprehensive Resource to Date for Journalists, Policymakers, Researchers and Citizen Activists 27 April 2023 — With donations spread across 334 members of Congress from 49 different states, Meta has lavished millions on elected officials from both parties — from…Metaverse3 min readMetaverse3 min read
Apr 25SUMMER 2023: Real Facebook Oversight Board is Hiring Interns!Applications are due by May 15, 2023. Are you a student interested in Facebook accountability? The Real Facebook Oversight Board (RFOB) is hiring interns for Spring 2023! RFOB is a group of prominent global experts, journalists, and academics, some of whom are the company’s fiercest critics, looking to hold Facebook…2 min read2 min read
Apr 20Meta’s Oversight Board Is Right to Recommend a Disinformation Inquiry, But It Has No Power to Make It Happen.A real oversight body wouldn’t politely ask the company it was overseeing for an investigation — it would demand one. 20 April — Meta’s Oversight Board today made an important recommendation, urging to “commission an impact assessment with a focus on how design features like Facebook’s News Feed recommendation algorithms…Meta2 min readMeta2 min read
Feb 1Torrent of Litigation, Disinformation Make Meta A Growing Risk for Shareholders in Q4 Full of Harms1 February 2023 — The Real Facebook Oversight Board issued the following statement for attribution ahead of Meta’s Q4 2022 earnings calls today - Eyes will be on Meta’s profits today, but what about Meta’s social impact? For Meta shareholders and global democracy, the real costs of Q4 2022 aren’t…Meta2 min readMeta2 min read
Jan 24Re-platforming Trump on Facebook Is a Grave Threat to Democracy; “He Has Put Down the Dog Whistle and Picked Up a Bullhorn”Meta Can Still Act to Protect Its Users, Even if The Oversight Board Wouldn’t; RFOB Members Weigh In on Dangerous Precedent if Trump is Allowed Back On 24 January 2023 — As Meta continues to debate whether or not to allow former President Donald Trump back on its platforms, the…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
Dec 20, 2022SEC Testimony Obtained by RFOB Shows Zuckerberg Misled Congress, Knew Far More About Cambridge Analytica Than Previously AcknowledgedCambridge Edited Out of 2017 Speech; Discussed in Emails. Timeline Contradicts 2019 Testimony in Front of AOC, Congress. 20 December 2022 — After over a year of delays, Zamaan Qureshi, policy advisor for the Real Facebook Oversight Board and American University student, won a Freedom of Information Act battle with…Zuckerberg5 min readZuckerberg5 min read
Oct 28, 2022An Oversight Board Didn’t Work for Meta — and It Won’t Work for TwitterMusk’s “Content Council” is No Substitute for Real, Independent Regulation and Oversight 28 October — Trying to skirt regulation and real oversight, Meta in 2020 established its “Oversight Board,” a content moderation council without independence from the company or a mandate to make real changes to disinformation and hate speech…2 min read2 min read
