![]() 6 Facebook referred its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump’s accounts to its Oversight Board, also inviting the Board’s recommendations about the suspension of political leaders’ accounts. 3 One was a video calling the 2020 presidential election “stolen” and “fraudulent,” 4 and the other a statement saying: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.” 5 After removing the second post, Facebook blocked Trump’s accounts from posting for an initial twenty-four hours, and then extended the block indefinitely and for at least two weeks until the transition of power took place. 1 Donald Trump, then President, shared two posts on Instagram and Facebook 2 during and immediately after the attack that Facebook removed for violating its Community Standards. On January 6, 2021, a mob attacked and breached the United States Capitol, causing deaths and injuries, and threatening the constitutional order. It suggests that Facebook’s carelessness with those it perceives to be weak or inconsequential can affect the company when powerful allies care or powerful alliances are formed. ![]() It discusses where the Oversight Board is placed in this ecosystem, and how far it can oversee Facebook. This Essay’s account of Facebook’s faces and relationships shows that less influential actors can sway the company through strategic alliances with stronger actors. Content moderation takes place within this ecosystem. It is also internally complicated, with staff whose sympathies and powers vary and can be at odds with each other. This Essay argues that Facebook has many faces - different teams working towards different goals, and engaging with different ministries, institutions, scholars, and civil society organizations. Theorizing Facebook’s relationships this way includes less influential states and publics that are otherwise obscured, and renders visible the agency and influence of Facebook’s staff.įacebook engages with states and publics through multiple parallel regulatory conversations, further complicated by the fact that Facebook itself is not a monolith. This Essay builds on their work and expands their theorization to account for differences among states, the varying influence of different publics, and the complexity and tensions within companies. Scholars have offered brilliant, nuanced accounts of social media platforms’ relationships with states and users. ![]() To understand how, we have to appreciate the complexity of Facebook’s relationships with states, publics, and its own staff. Wong visit Zócalo to examine whether the future will take us backwards.The case of the suspension of former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts clarified the relationship between Facebook and its Oversight Board. What are the risks of human society of entering a darker, less civilized age? Do the rise of authoritarians and political extremists portend greater barbarity in how our societies are governed? Even if we all agreed that we’re close to the apocalypse, do humans have the capacity to save themselves? University of New South Wales global biosecurity scholar Raina MacIntyre, SCI-Arc speculative architect and futurist Liam Young, and RAND Corporation defense policy researcher and former U.S. Old technologies are breaking down and new technologies are used for oppression and social control. The deluge of digital information makes it hard to separate truth from fiction. Runaway climate change portends the wholesale destruction of economies and species. Twenty-first century visions of the future now seem drawn from Hollywood horror films. ![]()
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