Lawfare is here for you for all things Facebook Oversight Board. The Oversight Board is a grand experiment aimed at improving the way that companies moderate the speech that they host. No one knows if the Oversight Board will "work," and there's no universal understanding of what "success" would even mean, or if the FOB could ever plausibly achieve it. But the FOB is worth paying attention to either way.
Our Facebook Oversight Board blog (FOBblog) will be tracking the Oversight Board's activity with convenient links below to information about the Oversight Board, statistics about the Oversight Board, a collection of documents related to the cases, a compilation of Lawfare analysis and Arbiters of Truth podcasts about the Oversight Board. Click the green buttons below to explore. We will be growing, so stay tuned!
Lawfare analysis on the Facebook Oversight Board:
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The Facebook Oversight Board Should Review Trump’s Suspension
Checks and balances don’t exist only for decisions people agree with. Facebook should allow oversight of its most high-profile content moderation decision yet. -
Facebook Releases an Update on Its Oversight Board: Many Questions, Few Answers
It’s been roughly six months since Facebook started collecting global feedback on its proposal to create an oversight board for content moderation decisions. This morning, the platform released the findi... -
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Hearing Today
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board held a day-long hearing today on FISA reform, which C-SPAN covered live. Unfortunately, the videos are not embeddable. But here they are.