Meta’s oversight board is laying off 15 per cent of its full-time staff, raising questions about the future of a project that has been championed by Sir Nick Clegg.
The board is funded by Meta but acts independently to make binding judgments on content moderation and to issue policy recommendations to the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
Announced in 2018 by Mark Zuckerberg, it started work in 2020 and was designed to take thorny decisions about publishing content out of the hands of Meta executives.
Meta has ploughed $280 million into the lavishly funded organisation, which has its de facto headquarters in London and counts Alan Rusbridger, the former Guardian editor, among board members.
The 22 board members make rulings and are
