Join our founder Carrie Goldberg and other esteemed panelists for a discussion about Social Media Content Moderation! On Thursday, July 8th 4–6p.m., the FCBA will present this third and final session in their Online Platform Regulation Series, via Zoom.

  • What are the current content moderation practices in social media?
  • How does the Section 230 case law affect these practices?
  • What challenges do platforms that must engage in content moderation face?
  • What obligations do they have to the public?
  • Can misinformation/disinformation on social media be prevented?
  • Can/should algorithms be regulated or at least better understood, and how could this be done?
  • Are private sector solutions (e.g., oversight boards, greater competition) helping to ameliorate problems of misinformation/disinformation on social media?
  • Do Fairness Doctrine-like principles have a role in social media?
  • Platforms v. Publishers: What are the implications of the Australian experience with Facebook?
  • What should be the public interest policymaking priorities for content moderation?

The session will explore these questions and more!

Who’s involved:

KEYNOTE REMARKS – FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

PANEL 1: CURRENT LAW ON CONTENT MODERATION (moderated by Sara Baxenburg, Associate, Wiley Rein LLP, and Stephanie Weiner, Partner, Harris Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP)

Carrie Goldberg, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC founder and victims’ rights attorney.

Jeff Kosseff (Cybersecurity and Privacy law professor, US Naval Academy; author of The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet and Do we have a right to online anonymity?)

Ambika Kumar (Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine)

Michele Lee (Assistant General Counsel and Head of Litigation, Regulatory, & Employment, Pinterest)

PANEL 2: THE FUTURE OF CONTENT MODERATION (moderated by Jonathan Cohen, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, and Dan Waggoner, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP)

Marcus Brauchli (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, North Base Media; former Executive Editor, The Washington Post; former Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal)

Courtney Gregoire (Chief Digital Safety Officer, Microsoft)

Daphne Keller (Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center; former Associate General Counsel, Google)

Kevin Martin (Head, U.S. Public Policy, Facebook; former FCC Chairman)

 

Click here to register.

*There is a law student member rate for all law students!  If you are a law student non-FCBA member, you can click here to download the form and sign up.

COST
$50.00 for Private Sector Members
$25.00 for Government/Academic/Transitional/Retired Members
$15.00 for Law Students
$75.00 for Non-Members

 

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