Eager to fend off government regulation of his empire, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, created the board to demonstrate that the platform could police itself. When criticized for allowing inflammatory posts, Zuckerberg has often justified his decisions on free speech grounds. The generalizability of the rationale for the Trump ban may pose the biggest challenge. AdvertisementBy creating the Oversight Board, Facebook is trying to quell alarm over the platform’s expanding power. Suzanne Nossel is chief executive of PEN America and author of “Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2021 11:18 UTC