Opinion: Will Facebook's oversight board hold it accountable?

Video: Facebook names first members of oversight board that can overrule Zuckerberg (Reuters) The narrower area where the board’s involvement makes the most sense is precisely the one it has been tasked with monitoring: online speech. The government cannot police speech here without encroaching on cherished liberties, yet the alternative is to allow a private business to control civic lifewithout answering to anyone besides shareholders. Yet it is exactly these “leave-ups” that catch the company the most flak, such as a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) distorted to make her appeardrunk, and hate speech in Myanmar that helped lead to genocide. Gallery: 9 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Mark Zuckerberg really is (Business Insider) Users — and the board, too — ought to hold Facebook to this commitment.