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The release of the Facebook Oversight Board’s report led to countless hot takes as well as thoughtful analysis. Why, then, has it seemed like such a letdown?

The board made critical recommendations: that Facebook reckon with its own role in amplifying content and overhaul its approach to high-reach accounts.

The Oversight Board must grapple with algorithmic decision-making and whether politicians' speech ought to be governed by special rules, with implications for political speech…

Experts draft specific questions — on disinformation and extremism — for Congress to ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai…

The company’s inability to enact a clear, consistent, transparent content-moderation policy may lead the board to overturn the decision to bar Trump.

The proposed law that the tech giant is fighting has problems, but Facebook’s removal of news is inexcusable.

Since taking power, Myanmar's military has limited access to social media, and at times cut internet service overall. What can tech companies do to resist?

De-platforming is a window on the unequally distributed power and embedded assumptions that determine what content gets to stay online.

To solve the numerous challenges linked to content moderation, the spread of incitement to violence, censorship etc., we certainly need standards based on human rights law, but…

Are the winds changing for data-intensive companies, and what is the prevailing mood of technology regulators on both sides of the Atlantic heading into 2021?

It is remarkable that even individuals sanctioned by the United States are not explicitly prohibited from using platforms like Twitter and Facebook to speak directly to international…

On human rights, infrastructure, and transparency, modest but welcome signals from a board that will have such a pivotal role in public discourse.