[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] new information on Facebook's oversight board

[Ali Hussein]

Barrack

Thanks for sharing. This is a step in the right direction. We’ll have to wait and how this will affect content on Facebook going forward. The Board will have to navigate a very slippery slop of countering hate speech while respecting the right to expression. 

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> On 16 Dec 2019, at 1:07 PM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Lister's,
> 
> Might be of interest.
> 
> Regards
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ayden Férdeline via InternetPolicy <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:17:12 +0000
> Subject: [Internet Policy] new information on Facebook's oversight board
> To: ISOC INTERNETPOLICY <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
> 
> Facebook has offered new insights into the structure of its future
> oversight board, which will be set up as an independent trust. They
> have also published an independent human rights impact assessment
> examining the board/trust's responsibilities:
> 
> https://about.fb.com/news/2019/12/oversight-board-update/
> 
> Ayden Férdeline
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