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Facebook Oversight Board Should Hear the India Hate Speech Case
The panel might be ready to start work in October, and it is not too late for it to weigh in on this. The global information environment demands it.

Ignore Trump’s Twitter Tantrum Executive Order and Address Disinformation Instead
The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.

Trump’s Executive Order Targets Twitter, Capitalizing on Right-Wing Grievance
Even if it doesn't lead to action, the threat of regulatory pressure aims to bully social media companies into continuing their hands-off approach to Trump.

Facebook’s Oversight Board: A Meaningful Turn Toward International Human Rights Standards?
That depends on how it will weigh Facebook’s community standards and values against global norms in its content-moderation decisions.

The Republic of Facebook
This board, for content moderation, may be part of the answer to problems of online speech and censorship. But U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye explains that it is only one part.

The Facebook Oversight Board: An Experiment in Self-Regulation
It's not a "Supreme Court," as Mark Zuckerberg suggested, but it might be the most interesting development in social media self-regulation in a decade.

An Ambitious Reading of Facebook’s Content Regulation White Paper
How might we move toward accountability in the face of irreconcilable clashes between Rights-era and Public Health-era values, particularly given the serious practical and civil…