TIB Trump Facebook
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- TIB Trump Facebook
- May 5, 2021
- Language English
- Transcript/Script TITLE: 4324175 US Facebook Trump Decision Preview DESCRIPTION: Facebook paid panel to rule on suspended Trump page RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS: This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. ORIGINAL PROVIDER: FACEBOOK ASSOCIATED PRESS POOL FEED VERSION: 0 =====SCRIPT BODY TEXT===== SHOTLIST: RESTRICTION SUMMARY: FACEBOOK Internet - 4 May 2021 1. Scrolling screen capture of Former US President Donald Trump's suspended Facebook page ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles County - 4 May 2021 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica J. Gonzales, Real Facebook Oversight Board member: "One person, should they go up or down? It's a powerful person. It's important. I understand the attention and the spectacle around it because it is important. The harm that can come from Trump being back on the platform is immense. So, of course, it's a spectacle. However, the oversight board isn't going to fix Facebook tomorrow, no matter what it does. It doesn't have the power to fix Facebook. It doesn't have the power to hold the entity accountable to its users all around the world. It simply doesn't. It's no Supreme Court." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Menlo Park, California - 9 January 2020 3. Facebook thumbs up sign in front of company headquarters 4. Facebook way sign ASSOCIATED PRESS Nashville, Tennessee - 4 May 2021 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gautam Hans, Law Professor, Vanderbilt University: "I do think that it's a bit of a sideshow. I understand why it's appealing to some perspectives. But Facebook has many, many people inside its company that make decisions about content moderation policies that adjudicate those policies. They hire contractors both domestically and internationally to assess content on a constant basis. They would prefer that we don't know about that because the existence of human-mediated content moderation belies the idea that this can be done effectively at scale and without bias. But of course, it's always going to be impossible to have a computer make these kinds of judgment calls because they're notoriously context-dependent." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: New York - 29 March 2018 6. STILL of the Facebook logo on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles County - 4 May 2021 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica J. Gonzales, Real Facebook Oversight Board member: "We are seeing an orchestrated, organized effort to spread false information about the vaccine, false information about public health guidelines, to spread racism, to organize violence over Facebook. This is something that Facebook needs to address on a day-to-day basis. And a dozen or so cases per year is simply insufficient to hold Facebook accountable. The board also, their recommendations about how to improve Facebook policies and practices are non-binding." POOL ARCHIVE: Washington DC - 28 October 2020 8. Mid of Senate hearing room 9. SOUNDBITE: (English): Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer, Facebook: "And the fact that both sides criticize us doesn't mean that we're getting this right. But it does mean that there are real disagreements about where the limits of online speech should be. And I think that's understandable. People can reasonably disagree about where to draw the lines." ASSOCIATED PRESS Nashville, Tennessee - 4 May 2021 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gautam Hans, Law Professor, Vanderbilt University: "But finally, I think that there needs to be some kind of investigation and potentially legislation or regulation. We've seen a lot of hearings in the US Congress. I think some of those have been better than others. But there is some there is a role for government here, I think, because these problems cannot be wholly solved by private entities and whatever oversight boards or other kinds of pseudo accountability mechanisms they put into place." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Washington DC - 10 April 2018 11. Various of Mark Zuckerberg standees with "Fix Facebook" t-shirts in front of the U.S. Capitol ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles County - 4 May 2021 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica J. Gonzales, Real Facebook Oversight Board member: "There's a number of members who are very interested in this, looking at the business model that really relies on extraction of personal demographic and behavioral data and then targeting us in ways that it would probably amount to discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, the Voting Rights Act, other civil rights laws. Right. So we need to actually update privacy and civil rights for the digital age, and so we really need to look into that more deeply." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Washington DC - 10 April 2018 13. Various of Zuckerberg standees in front of the U.S. Capitol STORYLINE: Skeptics are labeling the fate of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook page as a "sideshow" that fails to address the flaws of the social network's content moderation system, which they argue lacks accountability and transparency. Former President Donald Trump will find out this week on whether Trump's suspended Facebook gets to return to the platform in a decision likely to stir up strong feelings no matter which way it goes. A quasi-independent Oversight Board, that is bankrolled by the tech giant, says it will announce its ruling Wednesday on whether Trump's suspended Facebook page will return or stay deactivated. Trump's account was suspended for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots. After years of treating Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram silenced his accounts on Jan. 7, saying at the time he'd be suspended "at least" through the end of his presidency. "The oversight board isn't going to fix Facebook tomorrow, no matter what it does... It doesn't have the power to hold the entity accountable to its users all around the world. It simply doesn't. It's no Supreme Court," said Jessica J. Gonzalez, who is a Latina attorney, civil rights advocate and a member of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group critical of Facebook and its panel. Facebook created the oversight panel to rule on thorny content on its platforms in response to widespread criticism about its inability to respond swiftly and effectively to misinformation, hate speech and nefarious influence campaigns. Its decisions so far have weighed on the side of free expression vs. restricting content. Gonzales believes the oversight board that creates an appearance of accountability, intended to draw attention away from deeper problems of hate and misinformation that still flourish on its platforms. "We are seeing an orchestrated, organized effort to spread false information about the vaccine, false information about public health guidelines to spread racism to organize violence over Facebook," Gonzales said, This is something that Facebook needs to address on a day-to-day basis. And a dozen or so cases per year is simply insufficient to hold Facebook accountable. The board also their recommendations about how to improve Facebook policies and practices are non-binding." Gautam Hans, a Law Professor at Vanderbilt University said Facebook already has a large staff and hires contractors around the world "to assess content on a constant basis." He believes that some sort of federal investigation, legislation or regulation is necessary in order to make the process more accountable and transparent. "We see seen a lot of hearings in the US Congress. I think some of those have been better than others," Hans said. "There is a role for government here, I think, because these problems cannot be wholly solved by private entities and whatever oversight boards or other kinds of pseudo accountability mechanisms they put into place." Facebook regularly takes down thousands of posts and accounts, and about 150,000 of those cases have appealed to the oversight board since it launched in October 2020. 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- Location (dateline) 29 March 2018 - 4 May 2021 - Internet/Los Angeles County/Menlo Park/Nashville/New York/Washington
- Expiration Date May 7, 2021 10:40 EDT
- Embargo Date May 5, 2021 13:23 EDT
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English