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Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight

Facebook’s head of worldwide spin and coverage, former UK deputy high minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later lately offering extra element of the corporate’s plan to arrange an ‘independent’ exterior oversight board to which individuals can attraction content material selections in order that Facebook…
Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later today providing more detail of the company’s plan to set up an ‘independent’ external oversight board to which people can appeal content decisions so that Facebook…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "Irelands data protection watchdog, the DPC, has sent Facebook a preliminary order to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter and including a confirmation from Facebooks VP of global affairs, Nick Clegg". (September 9, 2020)
  3. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
  4. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  5. "Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms". (August 21, 2020)
  6. "A week after Facebook grabbed eyeballs globally by blocking news publishers and turning off news-sharing on its platform in Australia, the countrys parliament has approved legislation that makes it mandatory for platform giants like Facebook and Google to negotiate to remunerate local news p". (February 25, 2021)
  7. "The UKs competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebooks purchase of Giphy has a realistic prospect of substantially lessening competition by March 25, it said today, as it continues to scrutinize the acquisition". (January 28, 2021)
  8. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  9. "The European Union may investigate Facebooks $1BN acquisition of customer service platform Kustomer after concerns were referred to it under EU merger rules". (April 6, 2021)
  10. "Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europes top court this summer". (September 11, 2020)
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