{"id":39176,"date":"2021-08-26T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39176"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:19:37","slug":"gearing-up-for-midterm-moderating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39176","title":{"rendered":"GEARING UP FOR MIDTERM MODERATING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is considering forming an advisory board with academics and policy experts to advise the company on content moderation decisions related to global elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqwmnch_ucqhnnwqwshfwyyhfmnq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqwmnch_ucqhnnwqwshfwyyhfmnq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630104264055000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIpPF0ZJ1lHDpt5SlqXDaWyJurhQ\">The New York Times reported<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory commission would make decisions around how to handle election misinformation, a topic Facebook has faced fierce scrutiny over, five people with knowledge of discussions told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>If the board is set up, the social media giant is expected to announce it this fall, ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment when reached by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The election advisory commission would follow Facebook\u2019s launch of its Oversight Board, which assembled a group of journalists, academics and policy experts globally to review disputed Facebook content moderation decisions and make binding rulings for the company on whether to restore posts and accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is considering forming an advisory&#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-39176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176","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=39176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39177,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39176\/revisions\/39177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}