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May 10, 2021 (Children’s Health Defense) — Facebook, which owns Instagram, is aggressively engaged in censorship. So in order to clean up its image, Facebook created an Oversight Board, which the social media giant describes as “independent, empowered, accessible and transparent.”
In theory, the Oversight Board has the power to reverse any decision by Facebook to censor posts by Facebook and Instagram users.
In reality, Facebook has total control over a user’s ability to appeal to the Oversight Board.
If Instagram removes a user’s individual post, the user may appeal Instagram’s decision by filing an appeal to the Oversight Board. The appeal is a two-step process.
First, the user submits a simple “request review” form through a link on the user’s account. If Instagram determines the post was not removed by accident, but rather for some other reason such as a violation of Instagram’s terms of use or community guidelines, Instagram sends a denial of request to review, which contains an identification number and a link that allows the user to proceed to the second step — an appeal to the Oversight Board.
The fatal catch-22 of the appeals
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