Facebook Supreme Court Overturns Four Content-removal Rulings
01/28/21 AT 4:39 PM
Facebook s newly-launched supreme court issued its first rulings on Thursday, overturning four of five decisions to remove controversial posts from the platform.
The initial batch of rulings did not include Donald Trump s indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram after the storming of the US Capitol, but the board said last week it agreed to consider that case.
The four overturned decisions included a post that asserted that France lacked a health care strategy and included claims that a cure for Covid-19 exists.
This post was initially removed on grounds that it contributed to risk of imminent. physical harm. But the review board said Facebook s rule on misinformation and imminent harm was inappropriately vague.
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Marietje Schaake is the president of the Cyber Peace Institute in Geneva and the international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. She worked in the US Congress and served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. Schaake
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Suzanne E. Spaulding, a Senior Advisor for the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies says, “We are fortunate in the field of cybersecurity to have a deep and growing bench of experts who also happen to be women and/or persons of color. We cannot afford to keep them on the sidelines of our efforts to help the public and policymakers understand these issues, any more than we can afford not to have them in our workforce.”
“There is nothing inherent in cybersecurity that should prevent anyone, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, or national origin from helping to secure the essential networks on which we all rely. We are stronger when we work together,” says