Who should determine what could be said on digital platforms? Martin Fertmann and Matthias Kettemann write on Tagesspiegel Background about how institutions can be designed for this purpose, where the risks lie and which role the Facebook Oversight Board plays.
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Abstract
Few court decisions are as eagerly awaited as that of the Oversight Board on the question of whether Donald Trump should be allowed to post on Facebook again. In the end, the Oversight Board kicked the ball back to Facebook’s half and told the social network to take another look at the Trump ban. The Board also urged Facebook to clarify its rules, to use only intended sanctions and – which will make Facebook moderately happy – to investigate what influence the company’s own recommendation algorithms and user design had on the polarisation of the American public and the storming of the Capitol.
Fertmann, M.; Kettemann, M. C. (2021): Private Macht und private Gewaltenteilung [Private Power and Private Separation of Powers], Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung & KI, 10 May 2021 https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/private-macht-und-private-gewaltenteilung