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Facebook’s content oversight board includes former prime minister, Nobel winner – Source CNET Tech

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Facebook’s new content oversight board has its first 20 members.


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Facebook unveiled on Wednesday the first 20 members of a new oversight board that’ll review some of the social network’s toughest content moderation decisions, an experiment that could change what stays up or gets removed from the site.

The board includes a mix of professors, lawyers, former judges, journalists and digital rights advocates, as well as a former prime minister of Denmark and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The members have lived in more than 27 countries and speak at least 29 languages. About a quarter of the board members are from the US or…

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