Content Regulation

Online
Essay
What Kind of Oversight Board Have You Given Us?
Evelyn Douek
Evelyn Douek is a lecturer on law and S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society. She studies global regulation of online speech, private content moderation, institutional design, and comparative free speech law and theory. She has participated, at Facebook’s invitation, in several workshops on the FOB, all unpaid and in her academic capacity. Tweet @evelyndouek.

The Facebook Oversight Board (the “FOB”) will see you now—well, at least a very small number of a select subset of you.