Meta’s Oversight Board releases an in-depth report on the controversial cross-check moderation system, calling for “radically” more transparency (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia  —  Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation tools, criticizing it for removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia.

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Microsoft’s Xbox publishes its first transparency report on content moderation and reveals it took action against more than 4.3M inauthentic accounts in H1 2022  —  Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox released its first transparency report on Monday, detailing how the gaming giant moderates its 3 billion global players.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended  —  Instagram announced today that it’s introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether your photos and videos are recommended in the app.

Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Meta’s Oversight Board says it can make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when “leaving up or restoring qualifying content”, starting this month  —  Meta Platforms Inc’s (META.O) independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month it can decide …

Steven Levy / Wired:
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board after two years: $150M funding through 2025, ~2M appeals, 28 rulings, and 119 recommendations, as it begins to win over critics  —  Mark Zuckerberg set up the panel to investigate how his company handles controversial posts.  Now its members want to transform how social platforms work.

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta begins testing a single interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and streamlines registration to help users create accounts on both services  —  – Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.