"It's good to have an alternative point of view, and we hope that the Real Facebook Oversight Board will strengthen the hand of Facebook's actual oversight board and push them to do more," said Martin Tisné, managing director of Luminate, the Omidyar Network spinoff that is funding The Citizens.Ī member of Facebook's planned oversight board, Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian, agreed. government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, which faced intense criticism for not being transparent about the advice it was giving to policymakers. The Citizens previously crowdfunded a similar project in the United Kingdom: an independent science advisory group as an alternative to the U.K.
They include political advertising, networks of bot activity, the organization of "militias" through events pages, the dissemination of QAnon conspiracy theories through groups and the algorithmic amplification of disinformation. The newly formed board will scrutinize a broader range of issues in weekly public Zoom meetings. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Oct. The board is made up of about 25 experts, among them Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" Maria Ressa, a co-founder of the Filipino independent news site Rappler Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights nonprofit Color of Change Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP Reed Galen, a co-founder of the conservative anti-Trump super PAC The Lincoln Project Ruha Benjamin, an associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University Marietje Schaake, a Dutch politician who is international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the former president of Estonia Safiya Noble, an associate professor of information studies and African American studies at UCLA Damian Collins, a member of the British Parliament tech investor Roger McNamee, a frequent Facebook critic and ex-CIA officer Yael Eisenstat, former head of election integrity operations for political ads at Facebook. Unlike the company's effort, however, none of the Real Facebook Oversight Board's decisions will be binding on Facebook. However, critics fear that Facebook will amplify misinformation in a way that could suppress voters and influence the election's outcome, and they have called for more oversight of the company's content moderation decisions.Ĭadwalladr sees the board as a "brain trust" that brings together experts to scrutinize Facebook's decisions in a public forum. The company has already rolled out several changes to clamp down on voter misinformation, including posts that try to dissuade people from voting and, after the election, attempts by candidates to claim false victories. The launch comes as Facebook braces for a challenging few weeks policing its platform ahead of the November election following months of criticism from civil rights groups. This is a real-time response from an authoritative group of experts to counter the spin Facebook is putting out."
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"We know there are going to be a series of incidents leading up to the election and beyond in which Facebook is crucial. "This is an emergency response," Cadwalladr said. The new board started by the critics is a project developed by The Citizens, a U.K.-based advocacy group founded by Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr, whose March 2018 investigation into Facebook's data sharing practices made Cambridge Analytica a household name. Its panel of 20 experts is scheduled to start reviewing cases in October, but it will have up to 90 days to make decisions.
Facebook's board won't launch in time to make any decisions during the presidential race. It will be hosted by Recode founder Kara Swisher, a New York Times contributing opinion writer.įacebook is still working on creating its own oversight board, first described in April 2018 by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an independent "Supreme Court" for content moderation decisions.
The group, which calls itself the Real Facebook Oversight Board, plans to hold its first meeting via Facebook Live on Oct.
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