Facebook/Oversight board
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 Facebook/Oversight board(Censors)   | |
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| Formation | 6 May 2020 |
| Membership | • Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei • Evelyn Aswad • Endy Bayuni • Catalina Botero-Marino • Katherine Chen • Nighat Dad • Jamal Greene • Pamela Karlan •  Tawakkol Karman• Maina Kiai • Sudhir Krishnawamy •  Ronaldo Lemos•  Michael McConnell• Julie Owono • Emi Palmor •  Alan Rusbridger• Andras Sajo • John Samples •  Helle Thorning-Schmidt• Nicolas Suzor |
| The group charged with deciding what could be said on Facebook, and what should be removed | |
Facebook's oversight board
Contents
Origins
Mark Zuckerberg suggested the idea of an oversight board in November 2018.[1]
Members
The first 20 members, scheduled to serve 3 year terms, were appointed in May 2020. The board is planned to have 40 members, of whom the remaining 20 were scheduled to be picked in 2021.[1] The group is chaired by Catalina Botero-Marino.[2]
Known members
4 of the 20 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Nighat Dad | WEF YGL 2018 on Facebook's "oversight board" |
| Tawakkol Karman | Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist |
| John Michael McConnell | NSA director, then Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton - "The perfect embodiment of the revolving door" in Washington. |
| Alan Rusbridger | British establishment journalist, editor-in chief of The Guardian. |
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