In January 2019, Facebook received a draft charter for the board and began a period of public consultations and workshops with experts, institutions, and people around the world. Harris also credited Clegg's involvement, saying that efforts to establish the board "wouldn't have moved absent Nick's sponsorship", and that it was "stalled within the company until Nick really took it on". Harris led the effort to create the board, reporting to Nick Clegg, who reported directly to Zuckerberg. Harris, who had previously worked on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and as an advisor to non-profits, to became the company's Director of Global Affairs. Ä«etween late 2017 and early 2018, Facebook had hired Brent C. The board was modeled after the United States' federal judicial system, as the Oversight Board gives precedential value to previous board decisions. Among the board's goals were to improve the fairness of the appeals process, give oversight and accountability from an outside source, and increase transparency. In November 2018, after meeting with Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, who had proposed the creation of a quasi-judiciary on Facebook to oversee content moderation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the creation of the board.
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Zuckerberg first announced the idea in November 2018, and, after a period of public consultation, the board's 20 founding members were announced in May 2020. Zuckerberg originally described it as a kind of " Supreme Court", given its role in settlement, negotiation, and mediation, including the power to override the company's decisions. Meta (then Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the creation of the board in November 2018, shortly after a meeting with Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, who had proposed the creation of a quasi-judiciary on Facebook. The Oversight Board is a body that makes consequential precedent-setting content moderation decisions (see #Table of decisions below) on the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram.