Comment about Mark Zuckerbergs „Independent Governance and Oversight“
Why Zuckerberg’s “Independent Governance and Oversight” board is not gonna fly (but some of his other ideas are at least worth discussing) Mark Zuckerberg is all for regulation of social media all of sudden. What’s wrong with that picture? In an almost 5,000 word “blog post”, Zuckerberg (plus we assume two dozen or so of the company’s public policy hacks and lawyers) has laid out Facebook’s idea of how to deal with the crisis the company is facing. The article’s titled “A Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement” and structured in 9 parts:
1. Community Standards
2. Proactively Identifying Harmful Content
3. Discouraging Borderline Content
4. Giving People Control and Allowing More Content
5. Addressing Algorithmic Bias
6. Building an Appeals Process
7. Independent Governance and Oversight
8. Creating Transparency and Enabling Research
9. Working Together on Regulation
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