Facebook’s content moderation experiment

The World

Every day, Facebook has to make difficult — and often highly consequential — decisions about what can stay on its platform and what has to be taken down. The company says it doesn’t want to make those decisions alone anymore. So it’s testing out an idea: a Supreme-Court-like panel that will get the final say on controversial content moderation decisions. The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou reports.  

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