The board will seriously examine the Trump question, guided by Facebook’s own rules as well as international human rights law. The decisions by Twitter and Facebook to bar Trump immediately reshaped the American political landscape. “They may come to realise that the Oversight Board is more responsive to freedom of expression concerns than any platform can be given real world politics,” he said. One prominent member, the Stanford law professor Pam Karlan, has recused herself to help with the Biden transition, an Oversight Board official said. The emergence of this new kind of governance, and this new kind of decision, signals the return of gatekeeping.

Source: bd News24 January 25, 2021 08:26 UTC