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GLASNOST! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy (Oxford, UK)
February 28, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
As a platform with more than 2.2 billion users, Facebook has found itself at the epicentre of many of the ongoing conversations about digital media, technology policy and democracy. Following multiple controversies, Facebook has entered a new period of cautious glasnost, inviting researchers to consider its operations and understand how it formulates and implements its policies.
Join the official launch of the report, ‘GLASNOST! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy’, written by Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Robert Gorwa, DPhil candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations , University of Oxford and Danaë Metaxa, PhD candidate in Computer Science and McCoy Center for Ethics in Society, Fellow at Stanford University.
Free registration at: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/glasnost-nine-ways-facebook-can-make-itself-better-forum-free-speech-and-democracy