For Brookings Institution’s TechTank, I wrote an overview of and takeaways from the Facebook Oversight Board. I was fortunate to be part of one of its expert meetings in August 2019, and I focused most of my comments while there on the private governance aspect of the process. In this piece I recreate the journey of the Oversight Board, and tease out three takeaways. Each of the three are obviously just skimming the surface of what is important and possible!