Facebook will rue its left-wing oversight board appointments
“In fact, picking Rusbridger could turn out to be a strategic error for Facebook which Zuckerberg and his team may live to regret.…
…With the exception of two US board appointees - including Michael McConnell, a US legal scholar from Stanford University who was nominated as a judge by George W Bush - the list appears overwhelmingly skewed towards people on the left.”
The 20 Facebook oversight board members
1. Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei – Campaigns on human rights issues across Africa at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.
2. Evelyn Aswad – University of Oklahoma College of Law professor who specialises in content moderation and human rights.
3. Endy Bayuni – Journalist who twice served as the editor-in-chief of the Jakarta Post.
4. Catalina Botero-Marino, Co-Chair – Former special rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.
5. Katherine Chen – Communications scholar at the National Chengchi University who studies social media, mobile news, and privacy.
6. Nighat Dad – Digital rights advocate who offers digital security training to women in Pakistan and across South Asia.
7. Jamal Greene, Co-Chair – Columbia Law professor whose scholarship focuses on constitutional rights adjudication and the structure of legal and constitutional argument.
8. Pamela Karlan – A Stanford Law professor and United States Supreme Court advocate for LGBTQ+ community.
9. Tawakkol Karman – Nobel Peace Prize laureate who used her voice to promote non-violent change in Yemen during the Arab Spring.
10. Maina Kiai – A director of Human Rights Watch’s Global Alliances and Partnerships Program.
11. Sudhir Krishnaswamy – Vice chancellor of the National Law School of India University.
12. Ronaldo Lemos – Technology, intellectual property and media lawyer who co-created a national internet rights law in Brazil.
13. Michael McConnell, Co-Chair – Former US federal circuit judge and expert on religious freedom.
14. Julie Owono – Digital rights and anti-censorship advocate who leads Internet Sans Frontières and campaigns against internet censorship.
15. Emi Palmor – Former director general of the Israeli Ministry of Justice who led initiatives to advance access to justice via digital services.
16. Alan Rusbridger – A former editor-in-chief of The Guardian who transformed the newspaper into a global institution and oversaw its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Edward Snowden disclosures.
17. András Sajó – Former judge and vice president of the European Court of Human Rights who is an expert in free speech.
18. John Samples – Public intellectual who writes extensively on social media and speech regulation, advocates against restrictions on online expression, and helps lead a libertarian think tank.
19. Nicolas Suzor – Queensland University of Technology Law School professor who focuses on the governance of social networks.
20. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Co-Chair – Former prime minister of Denmark who repeatedly took stands for free expression while in office and then served as CEO of Save the Children.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/06/facebook-will-rue-left-wing-oversight-board-appointments/
Also see:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/06/facebook-accused-left-wing-bias-appointing-ex-guardian-editor/