What Does Facebook's New Oversight Board Mean for Conservative Posts?

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

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Facebook recently announced the first 20 members of its new Oversight Board. The role of the board is to guide Facebook through decisions on what controversial content should be allowed to stay up or be deleted. Michael McConnell, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a co-chair of Facebook’s Oversight Board, joins the podcast to discuss what the institution of the board may mean for conservatives and how he plans to work alongside the liberal members of the group. We also discuss these stories: President Trump is critical of Obama administration officials who unmasked his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina is stepping down from his chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee due to his stock sales being investigated. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticizes Democrats’ $3 trillion coronavirus package. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, May 15. I'm Rosa Dull Judas.
0:09.6	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.2	Facebook recently announced the first 20 members of their oversight board.
0:16.0	The role of the board is to guide Facebook through decisions on what controversial content
0:21.2	should be left up or taken down.
0:24.2	Michael McConnell, professor of constitutional law at Sanford Law School and a co-chair of
0:29.5	Facebook's new Oversight Board joins the show to discuss what the institution of the Board may mean for
0:36.0	conservative content and how he plans to work alongside the more progressive left members of the
0:42.0	group. Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:48.3	rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:52.1	Now on to our top news.
0:54.0	President Trump says that the Obama administration officials who unmask
1:04.4	former national security advisor Michael Flynn in surveillance documents
1:08.8	a Russia ambassador Sergei Kisliak should go to jail. In other words, Obama administration officials knew that someone in the U.S. was speaking to Kisleac and ask intelligence officials for that person's name. Generally in surveillance the identity of
1:24.9	some persons is kept vague unless requested otherwise. Here's what the
1:29.4	president had to say in an interview released Thursday with Fox Businesses
1:33.8	Mornings with Maria.
1:35.6	It was the greatest political crime in the history of our country.
1:40.1	If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago,
1:49.0	and I'm talking with 50-year sentences.
1:52.0	It is a disgrace what's happened. This is the greatest political
1:58.6	scam hoax in the history of our country. And, it is the biggest point in scandal.
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