10/17/2019

Facebook Finally Has a Good Idea

The company’s latest plan to police toxic social media content is intriguing

I would like to formally apply to be judge and jury over Mark Zuckerberg.

And it’s not just my dream job if Facebook’s newest idea to police itself better goes as planned.

The company calls its latest effort to manage the controversial information on its giant social-media service the Oversight Board. The lofty idea is to create a global group — what some are calling a Supreme Court — by year’s end and make it fully operational by next November. The independent board will judge appeals from users on material that has been taken down from the platform by the company, and it will review policy decisions that the company has submitted to the board.

Please select this link to read the complete opinion article from The New York Times.