I've been watching the livestream of the launch of the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… Here are my personal thoughts as someone who has been pushing for democracies to align their words vs deeds for a long time.🧵1/12 In 2020 on the 10th anniv. of Sec. State Clinton's "Internet freedom" speech I called for a comprehensive and positive vision of the internet that strengthens human rights and democracy - starting at home. consentofthenetworked.com/2020/01/26/reb… 2/12

Facebook's Oversight Board has been unveiled! CONGRATS to its members, several of whom I know well and respect greatly. oversightboard.com
This thread offers my thoughts on the Oversight Board's relationship to Facebook's overall management and governance. /1 It is an important and timely experiment in building public legitimacy around how a social media platform’s content rules are enforced, by adjudicating the most difficult and contentious cases. If successful, it can be an innovative mechanism for online content governance./2

Mark Zuckerberg gave a big speech today freedom of expression. Let's take a look on Facebook's report card in the 2019 RDR (@rankingrights) Corporate Accountability Index and see how well they did on freedom of expression related indicators. (thread) rankingdigitalrights.org/index2019/comp… For the 2019 RDR Index we found FB was actually LESS transparent than in the previous year about requests it receives from governments to restrict content or accounts. rankingdigitalrights.org/index2019/comp…