The High Court of Facebook
Kate Klonick talks to Noah Feldman about Facebook’s new approach to speech disputes.
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Episode Notes
Today, Kate Klonick is back as the guest host. She is an assistant professor at St. John’s Law School, a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and researcher of the intersection between law and tech. She’s also co-host of a daily YouTube series called In Lieu of Fun.
On the Gist, in 2020, every online company has a community of standards and manually reviews user content.
In the interview, Kate talks to Harvard law professor Noah Feldman about his idea for Facebook to create a Supreme Court to adjudicate disputes over speech. They discuss how he came up with the idea and pitched it to Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg, the influences it draws from political systems, and the size of the case it should choose as its first. Feldman hosts the podcast Deep Background.
In the spiel, Facebook’s oversight board could be the start of something revolutionary within big tech.
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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.
