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Learning From Mistakes: A Guide To Expanding The Oversight Board, Kevin Frazier
Learning From Mistakes: A Guide To Expanding The Oversight Board, Kevin Frazier
Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology
More than 4.4 billion people use social media. A few platforms attract a significant number of those users—for example, 2.9 billion people use Facebook, 2.3 billion use YouTube, and 1.2 billion use WeChat. How these major platforms govern themselves with respect to content moderation has an impact on billions of users and may lead to policy changes across other platforms that affect billions more. That is why it is so important to analyze Meta’s Oversight Board—an independent body created for the purpose of “promot[ing] free expression by making principled, independent decisions regarding content on Facebook and Instagram by issuing recommendations …