Zoe Darmé on the Facebook Oversight Board
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Facebook has long been plagued by complaints about unreliable and arbitrary decisions about what does and doesn't appear on the site. In an experiment in incorporating greater transparency and accountability, Facebook has created a new Oversight Board, a body that will have the power to review policy and content moderation decisions made by the platform. But the development of the Board raises a lot of questions. What should this kind of oversight body look like? How will it remain independent? And will Facebook users trust the Board's decisions? In this episode of the new Arbiters of Truth series, Evelyn Douek worked through these questions with Zoe Darmé, manager of Facebook's Global Affairs and Governance team, who is leading the global outreach efforts in support of the Oversight Board.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | There is no right answer and that's why we need an oversight board because the current situation |
| 0:40.0 | is there's no right answer. |
| 0:41.3 | We have to make them and it feels like we're making them in a black box even despite all |
| 0:46.5 | of the many transparency efforts the company has made in terms of releasing the minutes |
| 0:51.8 | of our product policy forum which is the meeting where we talk about what policy decisions |
| 0:56.4 | we're going to make despite really seeing transparency reports. |
| 1:00.7 | All of these things are out in the open and people still feel like they don't have a |
| 1:05.6 | view into the discussions that are being had in Silicon Valley about what's allowable |
| 1:11.6 | and what's not allowable on these platforms that have a huge influence over speech, not |
| 1:18.6 | just in the US where these companies are based but globally and around the world. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm Quinta Jurisic and this is the LawFair podcast November 14th, 2019. |
| 1:32.6 | Today we're bringing you a new episode from our Arbiter's of Truth series on disinformation |
| 1:36.7 | in the run up to the 2020 election. |
| 1:39.4 | My colleague Evelyn Duex spoke with Zoe Darmay, manager of Facebook's Global Affairs |
| 1:44.1 | and Governance team. |
| 1:45.7 | Darmay is leading the global outreach efforts in support of Facebook's oversight board, |
| 1:50.2 | a new body that will have the power to review policy and content moderation decisions made |
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