Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Why Facebook needs a Supreme Court for content moderation

What belongs on Facebook? It’s a central question in our current reckoning over social media, and given the vastness of the company’s platform, it can be exceedingly difficult to answer. “Fake news is not your friend,” the company says — but you can still post as much as you want. Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories, which inspired years of harassment against the parent of Sandy Hook shooting victims, were fine until they suddenly weren’t. Everyone seems to agree that terrorism does not belong on Facebook, though there’s still more of it there than you might expect.

But imagine you could start from scratch. What would you rule in, and what would you rule out? That’s the frame of this new episode of Radiolab, which chronicles the evolution of...

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