This chapter investigates the role of Meta's Oversight Board in translating and developing international human rights law in the context of content moderation. Starting with situating the origin of the Oversight Board within the wider context of the emergence of international human rights law as a dominant framework for regulating content moderation matters, the chapter illustrates how the Board established its role and authority as a translator of international human rights standards in the online sphere. The chapter then analyzes how the Board is applying article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on the right to freedom of expression in its own decisions. The chapter demonstrates that the Board has illustrated how international human rights can be molded and interpreted to address human rights issues raised by new technologies. In some instances, however, the Board departed from human rights standards but failed to live up to its mission of explaining why Meta's human rights responsibilities differed from States’ human rights obligations.
