Any details on how board members will be appointed, vetted and selected?
This looks like Facebook creating a red herring it can blame for the consequences of policing its platform.
> While Facebook will select the first 11 members of the board, the eleven will choose the remaining board members, with terms lasting three years.
facebook picks the first 11 board members and then those 11 staff new appointments for 3 year terms, but not sure if the first 11 also control staffing throughout the org.
if this is a "facebook supreme court" then its kinda fishy if the stakeholders get to appoint the first 11 judges...
edit: also, tsk tsk wallstreet journal. if you use numerals (11) in a piece of writing, dont switch to the written number (eleven)!
So it's a Facebook-controlled board.
An honest mechanism would involve outside groups from the start. A legitimate mechanism probably requires the government to step in.
This is simply a deflection mechanism, a board for PR.
> if you use numerals (11) in a piece of writing, dont switch to the written number (eleven)
This is common style advice. The numeral represents a quantity. Written out, it represents the body per se.
So Facebook reserves its right to dictate who serves on the board, whether directly or indirectly.