[6][7] Facebook's announced introduction of the Oversight Board elicited a variety of responses, with St. John's University law professor Kate Klonick describing its creation as an historic endeavor,[8] and technology news website The Verge deeming it "a wild new experiment in platform governance".
[10] Following the release of the Oversight Board's first set of decisions in 2021, which tended to overturn the removal of contested content in favor free speech, the RFOB released a statement deeming the decisions a "troubling precedent for human rights" due to their potential to allow the publication on social media of potentially offensive content.
The group "submitted a public comment to the Oversight Board on the case, warning that reinstating Trump is an 'invitation to violence, hate and disinformation that will cost lives and undermine democracy'".
[11] In October 2022, policy advisor Zamaan Qureshi criticized Facebook's algorithms as failing to prioritize news over sensationalism.
[13] In 2023, the group said that the decision to re-platform Donald Trump "sends a message that there are no real consequences even for inciting insurrection and a coup".