Facebook's Paying Someone Else To Take The Blame (VL219)

Facebook, wracked by content moderation controversies for years, has adopted one of the most unusual corporate governance models of the model era: an "independent" oversight board, funded by the company, but otherwise operating outside of its control. Or is it?

The devil is in the details...in Virtual Legality.

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#Facebook #Oversight #Board

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Discussed in this episode:

"Who Ultimately Decides What Content Is Removed From Facebook? Now We Do"
New York Times - May 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/facebook-oversight-board.html

"Facebook’s oversight board could bring a justice system to a platform that needs one"
The Verge - September 18, 2019 - Casey Newton
https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/9/18/20870605/faceboook-oversight-board-charter-justice-system

"Facebook’s commitment to the Oversight Board"
Facebook - September 17, 2019 - Mark Zuckerberg
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/letter-from-mark-zuckerberg-on-oversight-board-charter.pdf

"Oversight Board Charter"
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/oversight_board_charter.pdf

"Facebook Community Standards"
https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/

"Global Feedback & Input on the Facebook Oversight Board for Content Decisions"
https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/oversight-board-consultation-report-2.pdf

"Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights"
United Nations 2011
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf

"THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS"
https://www.ohchr.org/documents/publications/compilation1.1en.pdf

"UNITED NATIONS STRATEGY AND PLAN OF ACTION ON HATE SPEECH"
May 2019
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/UN%20Strategy%20and%20Plan%20of%20Action%20on%20Hate%20Speech%2018%20June%20SYNOPSIS.pdf

"Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material"
47 USC 230 (CDA 230)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

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"Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law).

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