Scholars overseeing Facebook: Supreme Court or fairness washing?

Law professor helping rule on moderation rows sees chance to ‘put my research into practice, after yelling at tech companies to do better’, but others aren’t convinced

Published on
March 10, 2021
Last updated
March 12, 2021
John Morgan
A carnival float depicting a judge holding the tail of an alien whereupon is written 'radicalisation, hate, rush, Facebook' in Germany 2020. To illustrate whether scholars on Facebook's oversight board are helping rule on moderation rows.
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The biggest issues in Facebook’s future include how it resolves free-expression controversies and its governance and regulation
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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by stephen... on March 10, 2021 - 11:28am
Regardless of what the board decides, it is almost more important that Facebook has decided that it has the right to decide the matter and no-one has effectively contradicted them.

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