It is empowered to make binding rulings - that is, ones that can't be overturned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg - on whether posts or ads violate the company’s rules. But it said it's referring the matter to the oversight board for what it called an “independent judgment” on upholding the decision.įacebook’s panel is intended to rule on thorny content issues, such as when posts constitute hate speech - or if the decision to ban a world leader was the right one. The social media giant said Thursday that it believes it made the right decision to suspend Trump after he incited his supporters to storm the U.S. Facebook is passing the buck for its indefinite suspension of former president Donald Trump to a quasi-independent oversight board, setting up a major test of the recently established panel.
Politico Playbook led last Friday with a “takedown” of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis driven by anonymous former staffers.OAKLAND, Calif. It also includes this nugget: “Science reporters, unlike political reporters, have little innate skepticism of their sources’ motives most see their role largely as purveying the wisdom of scientists to the unwashed masses.” Remember all that “debunking” of the COVID lab-leak theory? Well, this cautious, even-handed deep-dive into all the available evidence by a prominent veteran science reporter is well worth the read. Well here’s supposedly neutral CNN to pick up the pieces: “A school district tried to address racism, a group of parents fought back” Scott Gottlieb, a meticulous documenter of the pandemic since patient zero, inserted a healthy dose of reality into the public discussion.Īs we noted last time, NBC News fluffed its coverage of a critical race theory referendum failing in a Texas school district. Anthony Fauci has defended outdoor mask mandates for children at summer camps and is now warning that the concept of “herd immunity” is “elusive” and “mystical.” “We all know it, and the federal government must do more.”Īnd on COVID, Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. “The reality is that this is a crisis,” Senator Kyrsten Sinema said in a radio interview last week. “What I didn’t hear tonight was a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border,” Senator Mark Kelly said after Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress earlier this month. Unfortunately for Psaki, prominent Democrats - including both senators from the border swing state of Arizona - have repeatedly used the “c-word” when discussing the fact that migrant apprehension records are being shattered on a monthly basis- and have been since Biden took office. Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an interview that the media was to blame for the use of the word “crisis” in describing the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that it “wasn’t really a crisis,” just a “huge challenge.” The Biden administration tends to respond to policy criticisms by quibbling about semantics - take the southern border and COVID as two examples. So while Twitter may say it is not a publisher, its curation team sure acts like it is. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. So what was the top-line takeaway? Police have named the officer in question, and “he has been ‘taken off the street’ while the criminal investigation is ongoing.” That crucial detail - that Columbus police shot Bryant after she disregarded orders to drop the knife and charged a fellow girl with the deadly weapon - was completely ignored by Twitter’s Moments team. Much has already been written about the media debacle in covering the tragic death of Ohio teenager Ma’Khia Bryant, who was shot by police as she attempted to stab someone. ” Well, let’s take a look at some recent examples to see if they are meeting that worthy standard. The platform claims that its team aims “to uphold high standards of accuracy, impartiality and fairness in our curation. As it curates what is happening around the world, Twitter pledges to “organize and present compelling content,” since “curators don’t act as reporters or creators of original work.” Over the past month, National Review has been following Twitter’s curation team - which writes the platform’s “Moments” and “Trending” summaries to help “surface the best of what’s happening on Twitter,” according to its about page.
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