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When Facebook kicked Trump off its platform after the Capitol riots, it referred the case to its independent ‘oversight board’. The board’s 20 members will announce in the next few weeks whether Trump will be allowed to return to Facebook and Instagram. The decision will not only be crucial for Trump – who might run again in 2024 – but to the way political speech is governed for Facebook’s 2.8 billion users. But who are the oversight board? How are its members selected? What are they paid? What detail can we know about their processes, and the context of their decisions? What else might they have to deal with? And how powerful are they really?
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editor and invited experts
Alexi Mostrous
Investigations Editor and Partner
Nicky Morgan
Baroness Morgan of Cotes, Former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Poppy Wood
Senior Advisor, RESET
Dr. Heidi Beirich
Member of the Real Facebook Oversight Board; Co-Founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and former Head of Intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Centre