The study comes as the social media giant faces criticism from all sides about what content it leaves up or pulls down. Conservative commentators and politicians have said the social network is biased against right-wing views, citing the bannings of provocateurs Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos. Progressive groups say it's become a swamp of racist, sexist and misleading speech.
Facebook knows that the new board won't solve all of the social network's woes. It isn't designed to review the social network's News Feed ranking or artificial intelligence, according to the report.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder, said Thursday in a discussion with Feldman and Jenny Martinez, the dean of Stanford Law School, that he's wary about giving the board too much responsibility.
"This is such an ambitious and unusual project in general for a company to take on, that one of the things that I've tried to be careful about is making sure the scope is clear in the beginning, so that way it doesn't collapse under its own weight," Zuckerberg said.
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