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Content Moderation
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Municipal Minute
Facebook Establishes Oversight Board to Advise on User Activity
If you hadn't heard, there was an interesting development out of Facebook last week when the company announced the establishment of an "Oversight Board" that would have authority to make…
The Right Coast
Facebook details plans for new Oversight Board
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg first wrote about his conception of a new body to govern the company in November of 2018 as Facebook faced mounting scrutiny over its privacy and…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
CFP: AALS Annual Meeting (Section on Defamation and Privacy Law)
The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Defamation and Privacy welcomes submissions on any topic relating to social media, free speech, and content moderation, including recent proposals to reform…
International Law Prof Blog
CFP: AALS Annual Meeting (Section on Defamation and Privacy Law)
The Association of American Law Schools' Section on Defamation and Privacy welcomes submissions on any topic relating to social media, free speech, and content moderation, including recent proposals to reform…
Media Law Prof Blog
Sander on Freedom of Expression in the Age of Online Platforms @Barrie_Sander
Barrie Sander, FGV School of International Relations, has published Freedom of Expression in the Age of Online Platforms: Operationalising a Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Moderation. Here is the abstract.In…
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Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims
Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen and scrub some the most gruesome,…
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Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims
Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen and scrub some the most gruesome,…
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Tech critics on both sides have it wrong: Section 230 is not a special privilege | TheHill
Recently, both Republicans and Democrats have publicly questioned the future of one of the most important laws underpinning the explosion of the internet: Section 230 of 1996 s Communications Decency…
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Cruz, Hawley Want the FTC to Probe Social Media Content Curation – Bloomberg
Two key Republican senators pressed the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. s Google and Twitter Inc. decide what content appears on their social media platforms,…
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Twitter Can Now Censor the President | RealClearPolitics
Last week Twitter announced that it would no longer exempt most tweets by government officials from its rules regarding what it deems abusive behavior. Historically, tweets such as President Trump…