One proposal they’re pushing for is the INFORM Consumers Act, which has bipartisan support and would require e-commerce platforms to more thoroughly verify the identities of top sellers on their platforms. “We're like a court of appeals we're not like the police department.” Owono agreed, adding, “I don't even think it would be that productive.”ĬLAMPING DOWN ON FAKE VACCINATION CARDS - Interest groups are pushing the Senate to bring legislation to the floor that could help stem the spread of fake Covid-19 vaccination cards.
The board should not play a role in helping the company determine whether it’s safe for Trump to return, according to McConnell - at least “not in the first instance,” he said. One thing the board does not plan to take the lead on is whether former President Donald Trump should have his Facebook account reinstated in 2023, when his suspension from the platform expires. (Its initial jurisdiction was limited to hearing users’ appeals to restore content that had been taken down by moderators the board now hears objections to material being left up as well as removed.) But it’s unclear what, exactly, a beefed-up oversight board would look like - and what content or services it might watch over. What’s next: Still, the scope of Facebook’s oversight board is expected to expand. The messaging service is “really a different kind of animal” and “wouldn't be on my list of the most important priorities,” he said. McConnell added that it’s for the best that the oversight board doesn’t have input on WhatsApp, at least for now. “We do not want to undermine the privacy features that come with encryption, but at the same time, it's a big challenge because a lot of messages are being forwarded with a lot of disinformation,” she said at the forum. But even if it weren’t, board member Julie Owono, executive director of French civil liberties group Internet Sans Frontières, said the messaging app’s end-to-end encryption adds a complicating layer. On WhatsApp: The Facebook-owned messaging app - which has been flooded with Covid-related falsehoods and political conspiracy theories over the past year and a half - is also outside the oversight board’s authority. The fact-checking process is “something that we don't review, and yet this is something if you ask people what they think is a problem at Facebook, that's on a lot of people's lists.” And that fact “makes a lot of people quite nervous,” he said during the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum on Monday. On fact-checking: Michael McConnell, a former Republican-appointed federal judge who sits on the board, said Facebook’s third-party fact-checking operation is outside the oversight body’s jurisdiction. And members of Facebook’s “Supreme Court” worry they don’t have the oversight capability to stop it. pandemic response and is likely to roil the 2022 midterm elections.
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