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As generative AI explodes on social media, the board’s slow, human-led review model faces a breaking point.
As the worlds of social media and artificial intelligence collide, Meta’s Oversight Board is rethinking how it can best execute its regulatory role.
Meta’s Oversight Board is an independent, external regulatory body established in 2018 to review content moderation decisions across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The 21-member global team acts like a “supreme court” making binding decisions as well as suggestive recommendations when a user appeals Meta’s original decision. Its monthslong, case-based approach alone may not cut it in the age of AI, Sudhir Krishnaswamy, a legal scholar and academic, and the only Indian on the global board, told Rest of World.
“We are always trying to reduce time taken and trying to get more done. Maybe because of the gen-AI space, some of our work would be less individual case-based and more structured. That’s a possibility. And we’re very open to that,” Krishnaswamy said.
