Facebook has created a council that will resolve disputes through moderation. It included a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former Prime Minister of Denmark

Facebook Corporation has named the first 20 members of an independent oversight board that will resolve disputes over content moderation on Facebook and Instagram.

The council included journalists, activists and lawyers involved in freedom of speech issues. They have lived in more than 27 countries and speak 29 languages, according to a press release received by Meduza.

The oversight board included Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, Tawakul Karman, a Yemeni human rights activist and journalist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, and former editor-in-chief of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger.

In total, the supervisory board will consist of 40 people - the names of another 20 members of Facebook will be announced later.

• plans to create an independent body that would oversee the balance between moderation and free speech Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced in November 2018.
• The created supervisory board, they emphasize in Facebook, does not depend on the corporation: its members are not employees of the company and cannot be “dismissed” by its decision. The corporation allocated $140 million for the council's activities.
• The council's decisions will be posted on its website , and Facebook will have to publicly respond to them. The corporation will also have to comply with the decision if it does not violate the law.
• When the council begins its work, its members will consider user complaints about what they believe to be illegal removal of content from Facebook and Instagram, as well as resolve difficult situations at the request of the company's moderators. A few months after the start of work, users will also have the opportunity to contact the council with a request to remove content that they consider illegal.