So I guess in Silicon Valley, when you’re talking about issues of that sort, my name would come up pretty quickly. Now, as for me, I don’t exactly know, nobody really tells you where your own name comes from, but I do teach freedom of speech and religion and press right in Facebook’s backyard at Stanford. And Facebook has agreed that it will comply with the oversight board’s decisions. So if you post on Facebook and Facebook decides to take your message down, then you can come to the oversight board for a second opinion on that.
What they decided to do was to create an outside board of independent-minded people with experience in free expression issues to give a second look to the decisions made by the company about content moderation. And with that have come controversies and problems: What gets posted? What comes down? And the company realized that it was not a good thing for any one entity, even itself, to be making these important free speech decisions. McConnell: The mission and purpose is that, over the years, Facebook has become the leading platform of communication around the world. Professor McConnell, thank you so much for being here today.Īllen: To begin, can you just tell us a little bit about the mission and purpose of Facebook’s oversight board and how you came to be one of the four co-chairs of the board? Virginia Allen: I am joined by Michael McConnell, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a co-chair of Facebook’s new oversight board. You can also leave us a message at 20 or write us at Enjoy the show!
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