Facebook's shadow court

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Kate Klonick, law professor at St. John's University, joins Matt to talk about her investigation into Facebook's secret content moderation board. She talks about her inside-Silicon-Valley reporting, the problems of regulating content in general, and why Facebook both is and is not like a newsstand. Resources: "Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court" by Kate Klonick, The New Yorker (Feb. 12, 2021) "The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech" by Kate Klonick, Harvard Law Review (Mar. 2017) Guest: Kate Klonick (@Klonick), Assistant Professor of Law, St. John's University Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer As the Biden administration gears up, we'll help you understand this unprecedented burst of policymaking. Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But yesterday Kate Konic is a professor of law at St. John's University.
0:05.4	She's also a leading expert on social media and Facebook in particular.
0:10.1	This is like the kind of subject that I think is challenging for people because we all use
0:14.4	Facebook, so we all have opinions on it.
0:17.0	And it can get really dangerous because you have opinions on things without really knowing
0:21.2	anything about them.
0:22.8	And Kate is the opposite of that.
0:24.2	She has done the most intensive study of Facebook, sort of new, this kind of Supreme Court
0:29.7	that they are rolling out that's going to make decisions about content moderation, other
0:34.0	important things on the platform.
0:35.8	She really understands it inside and out in like a clear, really thoughtful way.
0:40.7	So our conversation, I've learned a lot from her over the years.
0:43.2	I learned a lot from this conversation.
0:44.7	I think you will too.
0:45.7	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:57.3	I'm Matthew Clacius, my guest today, Kate Konic is an old friend of mine as well as
1:01.8	an assistant professor of law at St. John's University.
1:05.0	And she has recently published in the New Yorker, which I think you know, one of the most
1:09.3	important pieces of journalism that we're going to see this year.
1:13.0	And it's a really in depth look at this kind of tribunal that Facebook has established
1:19.2	with some, some fanfare to rule over some of its content moderation policies.
1:25.2	And this is a subject.
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