I don’t like to shit on people’s work, but given the amount of spam, fake accounts, and blatant abuse on their platform I do wonder what their oversight board actually does. A friend of mine had someone spoof their identity to write horrible things online, and it took two years, the police, and a letter from their MP to get Facebook to remove the profile. It’s a joke.
This is essentially some good PR to lower the bad PR they’re getting. The damage is already done, whatever narrative they were pushing worked. Now they get to say “We did bad things and we’re aware of it. We have an oversight board and we have a system in place. We pinky promise we will continue to improve how we handle these things in future.”
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I don’t like to shit on people’s work, but given the amount of spam, fake accounts, and blatant abuse on their platform I do wonder what their oversight board actually does. A friend of mine had someone spoof their identity to write horrible things online, and it took two years, the police, and a letter from their MP to get Facebook to remove the profile. It’s a joke.
This is essentially some good PR to lower the bad PR they’re getting. The damage is already done, whatever narrative they were pushing worked. Now they get to say “We did bad things and we’re aware of it. We have an oversight board and we have a system in place. We pinky promise we will continue to improve how we handle these things in future.”
Until next time it happens again.
Sorry about what happened to your friend.
The oversight board is there to make it look like Facebook gives a shit.