DEBATE: Was Facebook’s Oversight Board right to uphold the ban on Donald Trump? Anna-Sophie Harling, Head of Europe at NewsGuard, says YES This question of the Oversight Board’s decision is, in itself, problematic. The Board, a panel of paid advisors hired by Facebook to do high-level content moderation, only has as much credibility as we lend it. As a private company, Facebook is well within its rights to deplatform Donald Trump — [...]
Australian Facebook ban: A political gamble gone terribly wrong This week, Google and Facebook took two different approaches toward Australian policy changes that would force the tech giants to pay for linked news content on their platforms. Google announced a long-term deal with News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Facebook, meanwhile, called the Australian government’s bluff and abruptly blocked Australian users from sharing or [...]