Members of Meta’s Oversight Board weighed in on Elon Musk’s calamitous first week as Twitter CEO Friday, providing their competitor some tactical recommendation, and even leaving open the chances of someday extending its Supreme Court-like judicial companies to his platform.

Speaking on the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal representatives from The Oversight Board mentioned Musk ought to study some classes from Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious content material moderation historical past and “start with the principle of not doing harm,” Axios notes.

“As Meta found out, when you move fast you sometimes break things,” Oversight Board Head of Communications Dex Hunter-Torricke mentioned.

When requested about Musk’s at instances wildly inconsistent messaging relating to his method to content material moderation, Oversight Board member Alan Rusbridger suggested Musk to not chew the hand that feeds.

“You can’t piss off the advertisers,” Rusbridger mentioned. The former Guardian editor went on to induce stability and consistency in terms of implementing guidelines.

Musk has raised alarm bells amongst tech advocacy teams by repeatedly signaling an curiosity in loosening Twitter’s speech insurance policies and reinstating beforehand banned accounts. Since first expressing curiosity in buying the corporate, Musk repeatedly reiterated and amplified conservative complaints that their viewpoints are being silenced by way of left-learning social media corporations. Last month, seemingly sensing rising discomfort amongst Twitter’s chief revenues streams, Musk issued a type of declaration to “advertisers” assuring them Twitter wouldn’t grow to be a “free-for-all hellscape” underneath his possession.

The Oversight Board is an impartial group funded by Meta, fashioned for the needs of reviewing customers’ appeals to the corporate’s content material selections. Since its founding in 2018, The Oversight Board has weighed in on a number of excessive profile circumstances, with essentially the most notable being its decision to uphold a January 2021 ban on former president Donald Trump’s account. Though the Oversight Board says its selections are binding, some have called into question the extent of the group’s independence and effectiveness.

The Oversight Board’s phrases of knowledge come days after Musk mentioned he was eager about forming his personal counsel to weigh-in on content material moderation selections at Twitter. In a tweet, the brand new CEO mentioned Twitter would type a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.” Musk mentioned he would chorus from making any main content material selections or account reinstatements ( you Donny) till that council convenes.

That concept appeared to resonate with Rusbridger who spoke approvingly of the council, however expressed skepticism over whether or not or not Musk would really ship.

“It took Mark Zuckerberg around 15 years to realise he shouldn’t have untrammelled [sic] power over the speech of billions,” Rusbridger mentioned in an announcement following the occasion. “It took Elon Musk about three days. But does he mean it?”

Who precisely would make up mentioned council stays unsure, nevertheless, Hunter-Torrick left open the opportunity of an Oversight Board-Twitter partnership. Here it’s value noting that although the Oversight Board was meant with Facebook in thoughts, Meta executives, together with CEO Mark Zuckerberg instructed it might deliberate on content material circumstances for different corporations as effectively.

“We expect the board will only hear a small number of cases at first, but over time we hope it will expand its scope and potentially include more companies across the industry as well,” Zuckerberg said of the Oversight Board’s purview again in 2019.

So, whereas it appears unlikely, it’s not inconceivable the exact same Oversight Board providing Musk recommendation might someday weigh in on Twitter’s thorniest content material points. Whether or not that’s a superb factor most likely relies on whether or not or not you suppose it’s an amazing concept to have a Meta financial institution rolled group make content material proclamations throughout a number of avenues of on-line speech.