FACEBOOK CRITICS LAUNCH RIVAL OVERSIGHT BOARD

Critics of Facebook Inc., including the organizers of an advertising boycott against the company, on Friday launched their own oversight board to review the company's content moderation practices. The launch comes a day after Facebook's officially-mandated Oversight Board said it would start work in mid-late October, nearly a year behind schedule. The new group, which bills itself as the “Real Facebook Oversight Board,” counts among its initial members the heads of three U.S. civil rights groups, the former president of Estonia and the former head of election integrity at Facebook. The delay of the launch of the official Facebook-funded board means it is unlikely to review cases related to the Nov. 3 U.S. election, which has generated some of the most contentious issues faced by the world's biggest social network.