{"id":24452,"date":"2020-05-06T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24452"},"modified":"2020-05-06T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:06:33","slug":"facebook-content-moderation-board-announces-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24452","title":{"rendered":"Facebook content moderation board announces members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The independent oversight board created by Facebook to review content moderation decisions announced its first 20 members and co-chairs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwsdphcr_xvrdrrhvhtdrsssgrjsr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwsdphcr_xvrdrrhvhtdrsssgrjsr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1588892616830000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRccJYZD6584T-ksfayH9l958qtA\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0first revealed his intentions to launch the oversight board in November 2018 amid blowback over how Facebook manages hate speech and political content.<\/p>\n<p>The oversight board will have final and binding say over whether content should be allowed on, or taken down from, Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook recruited the board&#8217;s four co-chairpeople, who then led the interview and recruitment process for the rest of the board along with the social media giant and an executive search firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of our members has chosen to participate in the board because they believe there is no single company that can solve the most challenging online content decisions today,&#8221; Thomas Hughes, the oversight board&#8217;s administrative director, said on a press call.<\/p>\n<p>The co-chairs are Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a former Danish prime minister, Michael McConnell, a constitutional law professor at Stanford University, Jamal Greene, a Columbia law professor, and Catalina Botero-Marino, dean of Universidad de los Andes faculty of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The independent oversight board created by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24453,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452\/revisions\/24453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}