Barrack
Thanks for sharing. This is a step in the right direction. We’ll have to wait and how this will affect content on Facebook going forward. The Board will have to navigate a very slippery slop of countering hate speech while respecting the right to expression.
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> On 16 Dec 2019, at 1:07 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Lister’s,
>
> Might be of interest.
>
> Regards
>
> ———- Forwarded message ———-
> From: Ayden Férdeline via InternetPolicy <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:12 +0000
> Subject: [Internet Policy] new information on Facebook’s oversight board
> To: ISOC INTERNETPOLICY <[email protected]>
>
> Facebook has offered new insights into the structure of its future
> oversight board, which will be set up as an independent trust. They
> have also published an independent human rights impact assessment
> examining the board/trust’s responsibilities:
>
> about.fb.com/news/2019/12/oversight-board-update/
>
> Ayden Férdeline
>
>
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> Barrack O. Otieno
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