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7:59 am on February 11, 2021 · carnegie endowment (2), como (7), facebook (7), trump (2)

WEBCAST TODAY – A Conversation with the Oversight Board – Facebook’s Trump Ban and the Future of Online Speech

February 11, 2021 by ISOC Live

On Thursday February 11 2021 at 11:30am-12:30pm EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosts a panel ‘A Conversation with the Oversight Board – Facebook’s Trump Ban and the Future of Online Speech‘. Last year, Facebook set up the Oversight Board as an independent body to review its content moderation decisions and make binding judgments about its policies. Described by Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” the Board has rendered its first set of decisions and is now poised to consider one of the most significant questions in the world: should Donald Trump’s Facebook account remain suspended due to incitements leading to the January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol, or should Trump be allowed back on the platform to reconnect with his millions of followers?

SPEAKERS
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Oversight Board Co-Chair and former Prime Minister of Denmark
Dex Hunter-Torricke, Oversight Board Head of Communications
David Kaye, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression;
Steve Feldstein, Carnegie Endowment Senior Fellow for Democracy, Conflict, and Governance

VIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/h27sr3q_Lx

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3aZ4UIh

TWITTER #TrumpBan @OversightBoard @CarnegieEndow @HelleThorning_S @DexBarton @davidakaye @SteveJFeldstein

3:21 pm on May 18, 2020 · aspen institute (5), facebook (7)

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

May 18, 2020 by ISOC Live

Today, 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

6:49 pm on April 5, 2018 · facebook (7), oti (20)

VIDEO: @Facebook After Cambridge Analytica: What Should We Do Now? @OTI w/ @TMcSweenyFTC @cnonnaholland8 @MichelleDeMooy @harlanyu @kevinbankston #FacebookafterCA

April 5, 2018 by isoc-ny

Earlier today, Thursday April 5 2018, the Open Technology Institute presented a panel Facebook After Cambridge Analytica: What Should We Do Now? in Washington DC. FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny and a panel of experts hashed out initial answers to some critical questions: What should consumers do now to protect themselves? How should regulators like the FTC respond? What should Congress do? What changes should consumers and politicians be demanding of Facebook, and of the rest of the tech sector? What next steps will best protect our privacy and our democracy while also preserving internet openness and innovation? Where do we go from here? Panel: Michelle De Mooy, Director of Privacy and Data, Center for Democracy & Technology; Caroline Holland, Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla Foundation; Professor David Vladeck, A.B. Chettle Chair in Civil Procedure, Georgetown Law; Harlan Yu, Executive Director, Upturn. Moderator: Kevin Bankston, Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute. The event was webcast live via YouTube.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YkRSIB6UHCs
Twitter: #FacebookafterCA

6:37 am on October 7, 2010 · facebook (7), patent (10)

Facebook granted patent on GPS based checkins #patent

October 7, 2010 by isoc-ny

Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch reports that Facebook has just been granted a wide-ranging patent on location-based social networking. He writes:

The patent appears to be pretty broad. It covers a “method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location.” The location is determined using a “GPS identifier” and it combines a status update with the member’s current location. It also seems to cover what are now known as checkins:

the status information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the status information of the first user in a database; and sending the status information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display.

In other words, Facebook might just have been granted a patent to Foursquare’s (and Gowalla’s) main feature.

2:46 pm on May 28, 2010 · diaspora (4), facebook (7)

Mark Zuckerberg donated to diaspora project

May 28, 2010 by isoc-ny

In a Wired interview, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that he supports the diaspora project to make an open source facebook alternative, and even donated money.

I think it is cool people are trying to do it. I see a little of myself in them. It’s just their approach that the world could be better and saying, “We should try to do it.”