Thread by @carolecadwalla

This is a good, careful, exhaustingly researched piece by @klonick. That Facebook, Nick Clegg & the entire Oversight Board must be absolutely thrilled with. The ultimate imprimatur of legitimacy: an insider access piece in the pages of @newyorker.
newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

Here's a few things not in the piece. Meet Brent Harris. The man with the granola bar. You know what else Brent Harris did? He repeatedly pressured the funders of @FBoversight into withdrawing their support & killing the Real Facebook Oversight Board before birth.

Brent Harris's boss is Nick Clegg and Nick Clegg's boss is Mark Zuckerberg and as @klonick says here, decisions about the Oversight Board were being taken at the top.

But the biggest problem is that piece is predicated on idea that it's a legitimate process. It's not.

This letter from @JameelJaffer & @knightcolumbia is the best riposte to that.
knightcolumbia.org/documents/subm…

And here are a few of the civil rights leaders whose views on Oversight Board also didn't make it into the piece. (Though goodness knows we tried)
@rashadrobinson of @ColorOfChange
@JGo4Justice of @freepress
@MadihhaA of @MuslimAdvocates
@JGreenblattADL of @ADL