Ultimately, Facebook suspended Trump for two years. In other words, the Board passed the buck back to Facebook. Times (May 6, 2021), () and Margaret Sullivan, Facebook’s Oversight Board Whiffed. For commentary on the Board’s decision, see Kari Paul, Facebook Ruling on Trump Renews Criticism of Oversight Board, The Guardian (May 5, 2021, 11:39 AM EST), () Kevin Roose, Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Tells Zuckerberg He’s the Decider, N.Y. To remedy this failure, the Board gave Facebook “six months” to “review” Trump’s suspension and “to determine and justify a proportionate response.” 6 6. It found that while Facebook was justified in its decision to restrict Trump’s access to the platform, it was “not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.” 5 5. The Board partially upheld Facebook’s decision. for Facebook, tasked with reviewing the platform’s content-moderation decisions. Ezra Klein, Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s Hardest Year, and What Comes Next, Vox (Apr.
Nick Clegg, Referring Former President Trump’s Suspension from Facebook to the Oversight Board, Facebook (Jan. Soon after, Facebook referred its decision to the Facebook Oversight Board 3 3.
Facebook said that it “believe the risks of allowing Trump to continue to use. Guy Rosen, Our Response to the Violence in Washington, Facebook (Jan. Capitol, Facebook suspended President Trump. In the wake of an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Equipped with the powers this Essay identifies, the Board could play a significant role in curbing the pernicious effects of algorithmic amplification of speech on Facebook. This is an important observation because many of the serious problems plaguing online speech today-misinformation, radicalization, and community safety-are driven by algorithmic amplification. While much of the literature on the Board assumes that it does not have this power, the text and structure of the Board’s Charter clearly provide for oversight of algorithms. Abstract: This Essay argues that Facebook’s Oversight Board-an independent “Supreme Court” for Facebook, tasked with reviewing the platform’s content-moderation decisions-has the additional power to review Facebook’s algorithms.
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