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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
EXCLUSIVE: @klonick spent 18 months reporting on the making of Facebook’s Oversight Board. Its decisions are binding, but its power is quite circumscribed in a lot of ways. Soon after it started hearing cases, it got the biggest one of all: Trump. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
“...Trump personally called Zuckerberg to say that he was unhappy with the makeup of the board. He was especially angry about the selection of Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law professor who had testified against him during his first impeachment.”
“He used Pam as an example of how the board was this deeply offensive thing to him,” the person familiar with the process said. Zuckerberg listened, and then told Trump that the members had been chosen based on their qualifications.
Despite the pressure from Trump, Facebook did not change the composition of the board. (Trump declined to comment.)

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