31 May 2017: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | May 31 2017
LONG READ: Last week, a leak of Facebook’s internal rulebook for content moderation made waves, demonstrating the difficulty of regulation at scale.
CENSORED: Facebook operates on the scale of governments, but the company is no democracy, writes Sarah Kessler.
SPEECH!: Monica Bickert, head of Facebook’s global policy management, responds to the Guardian’s reporting on the leak of content moderation guidelines from inside the company.
404: A YouTube video of a giant American flag being unfurled at a stadium on 9/11 was deemed not “advertiser friendly” and disqualified from featuring ads.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jillian C. York
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work lies at the intersection of technology and policy. Based in Berlin, she serves of the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she works on issues of free expression, privacy, and digital security.
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