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Nate Persily

@persily
26 posts
2021-12-02
These FB takedowns are impressive in their own right but this initiative to facilitate research on taken down material is absolutely critical — provides a glimpse into what the backend of a broader research platform (which federal law should compel and broaden) might look like. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-02 View on X
Washington Post

In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors

The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating

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2021-10-07
If Congress is serious about regulating Facebook and promoting transparency, it should start with legislation that would require large online platforms to share data with outside researchers. Here is a draft legislation that would do just that. https://www.dropbox.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense

I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.

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2021-10-06
If Congress is serious about regulating Facebook and promoting transparency, it should start with legislation that would require large online platforms to share data with outside researchers. Here is a draft legislation that would do just that. https://www.dropbox.com/...
2021-10-06 View on X
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense

I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.

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2021-08-07
This is incredibly important and I hope serves as a precedent for the FTC to create clear safe harbors for academic research on platform data. (I'm working on legislation that would do so — more to come...) https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-07 View on X
Washington Post

In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”

But Only If You're an Advertiser Danny Bradbury / IT PRO : FTC scolds Facebook for citing it in researcher ban Pluralistic : Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a...

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2021-08-05
Join me on In Lieu of Fun today to talk about Facebook's termination of NYU's Ad Observer and why we need federal legislation that will compel FB and Google to develop data-sharing programs for approved university researchers. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-05 View on X
Wired

Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”

The company says privacy concerns forced it to block access for a team of academics.  Whose privacy, exactly? Source: The Mozilla Blog .

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2021-05-06
2 the Board now has expanded the range of powers it possesses. Not only will it affirm or overturn FB decisions, it can issue interim decisions and request that Facebook come back to rejustify its decisions. It also has asked FB to do the following: https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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4 On the merits, it is easy for the Board (or anyone) to say an incitement standard (or a glorification of violence) standard is too vague. But really, most incitement standards are too vague. It is difficult to specify “clear and present dangers” in advance, as Bd recognizes
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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1 the Board continues to ground its decisions in international human rights law. This is both understandable and perhaps inevitable given the charter. However, I think this approach is fundamentally misguided: Facebook is not a government and the newsfeed is not a public square
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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On the @OversightBoard decision: Although everyone will be paying attention to the bottom line, which seems like a reasonable Solomonic outcome, the most important issue for me is how this decision institutionalizes the board and its powers vis a vis Facebook, going forward...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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2 the Board now has expanded the range of powers it possesses. Not only will it affirm or overturn FB decisions, it can issue interim decisions and request that Facebook come back to rejustify its decisions. It also has asked FB to do the following: https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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For me, so far, the most interesting passage is: https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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3 we now learn more about how the Board interacts with FB - that it asked 46 questions of FB, most of which were answered, but some of which were not, based on relevance, privacy or other concerns. FB now knows that its refusal to answer questions will be noted in decisions.
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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4 On the merits, it is easy for the Board (or anyone) to say an incitement standard (or a glorification of violence) standard is too vague. But really, most incitement standards are too vague. It is difficult to specify “clear and present dangers” in advance, as Bd recognizes
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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1 the Board continues to ground its decisions in international human rights law. This is both understandable and perhaps inevitable given the charter. However, I think this approach is fundamentally misguided: Facebook is not a government and the newsfeed is not a public square
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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On the @OversightBoard decision: Although everyone will be paying attention to the bottom line, which seems like a reasonable Solomonic outcome, the most important issue for me is how this decision institutionalizes the board and its powers vis a vis Facebook, going forward...
2021-05-06 View on X
Oversight Board

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules

For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies”...

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For me, so far, the most interesting passage is: https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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3 we now learn more about how the Board interacts with FB - that it asked 46 questions of FB, most of which were answered, but some of which were not, based on relevance, privacy or other concerns. FB now knows that its refusal to answer questions will be noted in decisions.
2021-05-06 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg, who shaped Facebook's handling of Donald Trump, will lead the final decision-making process after the Oversight Board handed it back to Facebook

New York Times :

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2021-03-25
This is a pretty impressive and scary takedown announcement from Facebook's head of security. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook says it has disrupted a network of China-based hackers using its platform to target the Uyghur community abroad and draw them to malicious websites

Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community.

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2021-01-29
4The considerable reliance on international human rights standards gives us a sense of the body of law that will govern. Not a foregone conclusion & is bound to trigger some conservative reaction in the US as int'l standards are not as speech protective as the 1st Amendment.
2021-01-29 View on X
NBC News

Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed

Dylan Byers / NBC News :

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5.However, the fact that the Oversight Board overturned four of the five takedowns gives us a sense that it is likely to take more libertarian and speech-protective positions than Facebook.
2021-01-29 View on X
NBC News

Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed

Dylan Byers / NBC News :

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