Enlarge (credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Facebook has given politicians extreme leeway with what they can post, essentially treating them as a special class of user. Now, that policy will reportedly change, perhaps as early as today. The impetus for the change seems to be a looming deadline that Facebook’s Oversight Board gave the company […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. (credit: Mark Zuckerberg) The Oversight Board, an independent organization set up to review Facebook’s content moderation decisions, handed down its first batch of rulings on Thursday. The rulings didn’t go well for Facebook’s moderators. Out of five substantive rulings, the board overturned four and upheld one. Most […]