Zuckerberg’s Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Can’t Handle All the Disputes
A content oversight panel is a good start but won’t solve the bigger problems.
Rules are easy. Dealing with reality is a lot more difficult.
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Facebook Inc. appears to be moving ahead with the Supreme Court-like content oversight board it has been discussing for a year. It’s a worthy step but also a 1% solution for a unimaginably vast problem.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive officer, has been talking for more than a year about an independent authority that would become a final arbiter about whether a social network post should stay online or be wiped away for breaching the company’s rules against hate speech, calls to violence or other abuses. People can also appeal to the independent body if they think one of their posts has been unfairly flagged or removed.