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What Next - TBD | Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try

What Next - TBD | Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try

The social network hoped its “Supreme Court” would decide Trump’s fate on the platform. It didn’t take the bait.

Slate News · Slate Podcasts

May 7, 202118m 41s

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Show Notes

The question of Donald Trump’s banned account--to keep it blocked, or reinstate it--is one of the toughest that Facebook has ever faced. But the social network had a plan: punt the decision to its newly minted Oversight Board, a semi-independent “Supreme Court” tasked with making hard decisions about what content stays up, and what comes down. 


Did that plan just backfire?


Guest: Kate Klonick, professor at St. John’s University School of Law 


Host

Lizzie O’Leary


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