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Tenth essay in a series of top experts exploring proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule of law.

"There are three actions all social media platforms must pursue to avoid playing directly into these critics’ arguments and to avoid misperceptions."

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) raises questions about who decides what counts as terrorism or the even more loosely defined extremism.

As the prospect of antitrust charges against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) looms larger, regulators should challenge the concentration of data within Big Tech…

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.

A review of Facebook’s past content decisions in Myanmar can guide assessments of when the public interest value of election-related content breaches the threshold of harm. Knowing…

The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.

The current membership is insufficiently representative, particularly of Southeast Asia, and overwhelmingly American for a body that purports to be global and independent of Facebook.…

That depends on how it will weigh Facebook’s community standards and values against global norms in its content-moderation decisions.

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.

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.

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…