Meet the Facebook Supreme Court

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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As Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—surpassed 2 billion users in 2019, the company created an independent oversight board to review appeals of the company’s decisions involving content moderation. In this episode, members of Meta’s Oversight Board, Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School and Kenji Yoshino of New York University School of Law, join Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the board’s structure, its key decisions, and its efforts to ensure free and fair elections in advance of the 2024 presidential election. This program was streamed live on April 29, 2024, as part of our America’s Town Hall series. Resources: Meta Oversight Board Former President Trump's suspension, Meta Oversight Board decision (2021) Meet the Board Brazilian general's speech, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023) Altered Video of President Biden, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023) Oversight Board Announces New Cases on Israel-Hamas Conflict for Expedited Review (Dec. 2023) United States posts discussing abortion, Meta Oversight Board decision, (2023) Referring to Designated Dangerous Individuals as “Shaheed”, Meta Oversight Board decision, (2023) Cambodian prime minister, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023) Reporting on Pakistani Parliament Speech, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023) How to Appeal to the Oversight Board Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.  You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
0:06.5	Constitution Center and welcome to We The We To People, a weekly show of
0:10.0	constitutional debate. The National Constitution centers a
0:13.0	nonpartisan nonprofit charted by Congress to increase awareness and
0:17.2	understanding of the Constitution among the American people. In 2019
0:21.7	Facebook surpassed 2 billion users and the company created an independent oversight board known as the Supreme Court of Facebook to review appeals of its content decisions.
0:33.0	In this episode, members of the Supreme Court of Facebook,
0:36.3	which is now known as the Meta Oversight Board,
0:39.3	join me to discuss the board's structure,
0:41.3	its key decisions,
0:42.6	and its efforts to ensure free and fair elections
0:45.4	in advance of 2024.
0:47.6	It was an honor to convene Michael McConnell
0:50.2	of Stanford Law School and Kenji Yeshino of New York University School of California. of
0:53.3	Stanford Law School and Kenji Yeshino of New York University School of Law.
0:55.5	Enjoy the conversation.
0:58.5	It is a great pleasure and an honor for the NCC to convene two great scholars to discuss the role of Meta's oversight board and questions involving election integrity.
1:13.0	Michael McConnell is Richard and Francis Mallory professor and director of the
1:17.4	Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the
1:21.1	Hoover Institution.
1:23.1	Ken Yashina is Chief Justice Earl Warren,
1:26.0	professor of constitutional law at NYU,
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