A company-appointed panel ruled that the ban was justified at the time but added that the company should reassess its action and make a final decision in six months.Donald J. Trump was barred from Facebook on Jan. 7 after he used the site to encourage a mob that stormed the Capitol.Credit...
I admit I didn't expect this, I expected the Oversight Board to let him back on which in a sense they have by saying Facebook erred by being indefinite.
I am a member of Facebook’s oversight board. Here’s why we decided to continue his suspension from Facebook
Good level of transparency from Alan in trying to explain how this came about. They are between a rock and hard place on this because I consider Facebook beyond regulation and this is at least an attempt at transparency.
The public spat between Facebook and Australia earlier this year presages a new effort to regulate big tech companies – but could that threaten the whole future of the web? STAND-OFFS between nations are nothing new.
Alan Rusbridger is the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. For twenty years he was Editor in Chief of The Guardian. He sits on the Facebook Oversight Board. His most recent book is News and How to Use It. (May 2021)
Alan gets two pieces in today.
The former secretary of state warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online – and says big tech’s wings must be clipped
I am not sure this is either going to happen or a good thing. I am not convinced regulation is capable of dealing with the problem, maybe only civic education and what Americans call news literacy.
Six Americans logged their news consumption over the course of a day and, in doing so, probed their habits and perceptions.
Good to hear the voice of real humans on news consumption. It is one reason I am a big fan of The Trust Project since it's actions are based on real feedback from real humans - not the views of journalists.
Five years ago, London was a Conservative city. But the party has written off its chances of winning there this week or in the foreseeable future.
I thought his piece was very funny and I couldn't quite decide if it was satire or horribly, painfully true, particularly the description of "Jocasta" on the "Heath" eating a local delicacy.
Days before his company embarked on a share listing, billionaire Jack Ma went missing
Truly excellent work by a veteran BBC China correspondent.