Facebook and Credible Content Oversight | Cato Daily Podcast
John Samples, a member of Facebook's Oversight Board, explains that the board was created to provide legitimacy and due process for content moderation, addressing the tension between shareholder value and user trust.summaryFacebook's content moderation is driven by the need to maximize shareholder value by maintaining a user base that advertisers want to reach; extreme speech drives users away, necessitating community standards.takeaway“Facebook has a problem for a couple of years related to its content moderation... they want as many customers as possible... if everything that could appear on Facebook appeared they wouldn't be able to maximize sharehoquote














