Facebook’s Oversight Board: an Imperfect Solution to a Complex Problem

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Publish Date:

May 16, 2021

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Murphy, Hannah

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Financial Times

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“The problem is it buys into the idea that Facebook is a government and the news feed is a public square,” says Persily. “International human rights are not what the Facebook community standards are about. You have to think about what kind of rules can be applied at scale in very rapid decision-making contexts.”