Facebook will now protect public figures from online harassment and bullying, but has not commented on whether it can protect the regular masses from the same.
meetings they re holding on a daily, if not semiweekly basis at this point. mark and cheryl are getting blasted by the oversight board for not being fully forthcoming in the amount of information they told them about this program called cross check and the idea that there is a two-tiered system for how they treat people on facebook, you know, high-profile people versus you and me. so i think they re worried that they re going to get caught and at least stop being fully forthcoming with the board they hired to produce insight to them. then comes the question, what can the oversight board actually do? what tangible action could come out of this, and is anything with real teeth going to come from the congress side and not the board side? 100%. the main criticism of facebook s oversight board is that it is facebook s oversight board, right? they keep sort of going out of their way to say it s