WEBCAST TODAY: @AspenDigital webinar ‘Meet the New Facebook Oversight Board’ @Facebook @oversightboard

livestreamToday, Monday May 18 2020, at 3pm EDT (19:00 UTC) Aspen Digital hosts a webinar ‘Meet the New Facebook Oversight Board‘. On May 6, Facebook made the unprecedented move to appoint an independent Oversight Board empowered to make decisions about what content can appear on the global platform. The group is comprised of renowned thinkers and do-ers from a range of backgrounds and perspectives whose actions will be closely watched by boosters and skeptics alike. This conversation with chairs and members about their scope of authority, the nature of the relationship with Facebook, and their aspirations for serving the online community. Speakers: Evelyn Aswad, Director, Center for International Business & Human Rights, University of Oklahoma College of Law; Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Michael McConnell, Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center; John Samples, Vice President, Center for Representative Government, The Cato Institute. Moderator: Vivian Schiller, Executive Director, Aspen Digital.

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/oversightboard

PARTICIPATE: https://aspeninst.zoom.us/j/99898640831?pwd=RG50Z3dmNUFpN3dxMEtKRENBVjZodz09

TWITTER: @oversightboard @AspenDigital