Welcome to the FOB Blog: Overseeing the Facebook Oversight Board.
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!
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The Waltine Nauta Garcia Hearing That Was
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Cold-Pizza Demagoguery: On the President’s Latest Travel Ban
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- July 15, 2022, evelyn douek and Tia Sewell, "Meta's Oversight Board Often Turns in Its Homework Late. Does it Matter?"
- June 10, 2021, Jacob Schulz, "Twitter is the (Very Short Term) Winner of the Trump Oversight Board Saga"
- June 4, 2021, evelyn douek, "Facebook's Responses in the Trump Case Are Better Than a Kick in the Teeth, but Not Much"
- May 13, 2021, Laurence Helfer & Molly K. Land, "Is the Facebook Oversight Board an International Human Rights Tribunal?"
- May 5, 2021, evelyn douek, "It's Not Over. The Oversight Board's Trump Decision is Just the Start."
- May 4, 2021, Benjamin Wittes, "What the Oversight Board Should Do With Trump"
- March 8, 2021, Vicki Jackson & Martha Minow, "Facebook Suspended Trump. The Oversight Board Shouldn't Let Him Back."
- March 5, 2021, Carly Miller, "Facebook, It's Time to Put the Rules in One Place"
- March 4, 2021, Abby Lemert, "What Do the Available Public Comments About the Trump Ban Actually Say?"
- March 1, 2021: evelyn douek, "The Oversight Board Moment You Should've Been Waiting For" Facebook Responds to the First Set of Decisions"