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Facebook's new Oversight Board focuses on hate speech with first batch of cases

By Amy Miller
  • 01 Dec 2020 17:54
  • 01 Dec 2020 17:54
Facebook’s new Oversight Board, tasked with reviewing the site’s content moderation decisions, announced its first six cases today, and half involve hate speech.
The board is also looking at posts removed under Facebook’s nudity ban and misinformation policies after sifting through more than 20,000 potential cases. The public now has

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Amy Miller

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Amy is responsible for the coverage of an array of regulatory and litigation issues pertaining to the Internet, including privacy, data security and antitrust. Formerly a legal reporter for the ALM media group, Miller has closely followed legal trends in Silicon Valley and covered corporate legal departments for online and print publications including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The Recorder. Miller is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is an award-winning journalist with expertise ranging from education and legal reporting to computer-assisted reporting.

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