Facebook's long-awaited oversight board to launch before US election

Body will be able to overrule some content moderation decisions and plans to be ready to hear user appeals next monthThe long-awaited Facebook Oversight Board, empowered to overrule some of the platform’s content moderation decisions, plans to launch in October, just in time for the US election.The board will be ready to hear appeals from Facebook users as well as cases referred by the company itself “as soon as mid- or late-October at the very latest, unless there are some major tec