{"id":885,"date":"2021-03-17T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/facebooks-long-awaited-content-supreme-court-has-arrived-its-a-clever-sham-jeremy-lewin\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:45:42","slug":"facebooks-long-awaited-content-supreme-court-has-arrived-its-a-clever-sham-jeremy-lewin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/facebooks-long-awaited-content-supreme-court-has-arrived-its-a-clever-sham-jeremy-lewin\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s long-awaited content &#8216;supreme court&#8217; has arrived. It&#8217;s a clever sham | Jeremy Lewin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regulatory body sounds like a positive step. But it\u2019s designed to give political cover while Facebook continues to allow dangerous content<\/p>\n<p>In October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited \u201coversight board\u201d \u2013 a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted on Facebook\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes described as Facebook\u2019s \u201csupreme court\u201d, the <a href=\"https:\/\/oversightboard.com\/\">oversight board<\/a> has been met, in the legal and academic worlds, mostly with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/facebook-oversight-boards-first-decisions-ambitious-and-perhaps-impractical\">wonder<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/klonick\/status\/1258086292635648002\">excitement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3639234\">praise<\/a>. Giving predominantly legal scholars input on the content moderation of the world\u2019s largest social media platform seems like a positive step for social media governance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/17\/facebook-content-supreme-court-network\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/40a5c5ab69701a857d3d9e88eb7f7d41eb345b30\/0_350_5282_3171\/master\/5282.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7cdc854984d0d78293c12ad88c86f117\" title=\"Facebook's long-awaited content 'supreme court' has arrived. It's a clever sham | Jeremy Lewin\" \/>The regulatory body sounds like a positive step. But it\u2019s designed to give political cover while Facebook continues to allow dangerous content<br \/>\nIn October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited \u201coversight board\u201d \u2013 a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted on Facebook\u2019s platform.<br \/>\nSometimes described as Facebook\u2019s \u201csupreme court\u201d, the oversight board has been met, in the legal and academic worlds, mostly with wonder, excitement and praise. Giving predominantly legal scholars input on the content moderation of the world\u2019s largest social media platform seems like a positive step for social media governance. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regulatory body sounds like a positive step. But it\u2019s designed to give political cover while Facebook continues to allow dangerous content In October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited \u201coversight board\u201d \u2013 a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/facebooks-long-awaited-content-supreme-court-has-arrived-its-a-clever-sham-jeremy-lewin\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook&#8217;s long-awaited content &#8216;supreme court&#8217; has arrived. It&#8217;s a clever sham | Jeremy Lewin<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}