Journalists, legal scholars, a Nobel winner and a former prime minister will make ultimate content decisions for the embattled social network.
A former Republican U.S. federal judge, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Yemen and Denmark's first female prime minister are among the members of a new Facebook oversight board, the company said Wednesday as it attempts to quell complaints about noxious content and ideological bias on its platforms.
Five Americans were selected among the board’s 20 initial members, picked to reflect viewpoints from across the political spectrum. Along with Thorning-Schmidt, McConnell and Greene act as two of the board’s four co-chairs, all of whom were tasked with helping Facebook to select other members from a pool of applicants.
The board will not have the time to scrutinize every decision, but will instead focus on those that set the largest precedent, McConnell said. "This is how powerful @Facebook is, how much speech it controls, how much of our time & attention it claims: it now has a special censorship committee to decide what speech can stay & what should go," Hawley wrote."Facebook basically making the case it should be broken up."
The social network has maintained that political leanings should not influence the board’s content decisions, though Facebook and oversight board leaders acknowledge it’s impossible to achieve complete representation.
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