Inside The Facebook Oversight Board
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Jamal Greene, co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, an independent governing body reviewing Facebook’s content moderation decisions and issuing binding rulings, explains the inner workings of the Board. Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he focuses on constitutional law and American federal courts.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:13.8 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:17.6 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:30.5 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:39.5 | The Pushkin. From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind the |
| 0:58.0 | stories in the news. One of the recurring stories is Facebook, and particularly criticisms of Facebook |
| 1:05.6 | that have arisen from a large body of material leaked by a whistleblower to the press and to Congress. |
| 1:12.6 | This series of leaks has, of course, major implications for the company. |
| 1:16.6 | But it also has implications for the Oversight Board associated with Facebook, |
| 1:21.6 | the independent institution that has the job of reviewing the company's most controversial content decisions and correcting |
| 1:29.6 | them if it believes they've gotten them wrong. |
| 1:33.0 | Regular listeners of the podcast know that I'm interested in the oversight board, but I would |
| 1:38.3 | take it a bit further. |
| 1:39.4 | I am personally interested in the oversight board, having been one of the people who helped |
| 1:43.4 | come up with the idea for it in the first place and who worked with Facebook to bring it into reality. |
| 1:49.2 | For full disclosure, I also want listeners to know, if you don't already, that I continue to advise Facebook on free expression related issues. |
| 1:57.9 | In order to discuss the business of the Oversight Board, however, I am not the right |
| 2:02.3 | person to do the talking because I am not on the Oversight Board, and the Oversight Board |
| 2:06.9 | is its own independent institution. For that purpose, we're very fortunate to be welcomed on |
| 2:12.4 | today's show by Jamal Green. Jamal is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. |
| 2:19.3 | He's an expert on constitutional decision-making |
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