The Least Dangerous Branch ... of Facebook

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 10 a.m.

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Yesterday was a big day\\u2014the day that the Facebook Oversight Board released its first decisions. The independent board, an experiment in platform governance set up by Facebook, handed down five rulings weighing in on the company\\u2019s decision to remove various posts for violating Facebook\\u2019s community guidelines. It may not be Marbury v. Madison, but it\\u2019s still a big moment for online speech regulation.

To mark the occasion, Lawfare is setting up a new page collecting and tracking the board\\u2019s decisions.

For this episode of the podcast, Quinta Jurecic spoke with Evelyn Douek, cohost of Lawfare\\u2019s Arbiters of Truth podcast series on disinformation and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and Lawfare deputy managing editor Jacob Schulz. They discussed everything you need to know about the Oversight Board, including those most basic but crucial of questions: What exactly is it, anyway? What\\u2019s in the decisions? And why should we care?

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