He will lead the new oversight group as its director of oversight board administration. In the meantime, it appointed its first leader last month: Thomas Hughes. The only information about when the board will become active is '2020.' 'Given the size of our community,' Zuckerberg said, 'even if we were able to reduce errors to 1 in 100, that would still be a very large number of mistakes.' As of the writing of his note, in November 2018, the company's moderation system was making, 'the wrong call in more than 1 out of every 10 cases.'ДЄs a result, Zuckerberg proposed something that no other social media company has proposed: An independent board, separate from Facebook, that can outright overrule Facebook's own decisions.ДЇormer Article 19 executive director Thomas Hughes, right, speaking with deputy executive director Quinn McKew in 2018. And even if it were, mistakes happen - and mistakes on the scale of Facebook's size, however statistically small, have a huge impact. Algorithms attempt to catch the majority, and tens of thousands of human moderators act as the second line of defense.Д«ut that's not nearly enough bandwidth to address billions of users' content. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes a drink of water as he testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy.ДЇacebook uses a combination of human and computer-based moderation tools to police its service.

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