The 'Control Committee' is officially born, called to judge the Facebook and Instagram decisions on the deletion of content and profiles, which users can make use of. Twenty members who will start operating from the end of the year in "full transparency and autonomy" from the social network. The announcement during a conference call in which ANSA participated. "The size of our platform implies great responsibilities. This is a fundamental change, we will implement the decisions of the Committee," says Nick Clegg, Facebook vice president.
The official birth of the Control Committee, the Oversigt Board, was preceded in recent months by the publication of a kind of founding charter of the organization, which has an international nature. The 20 members have been chosen with professional selectors and a public consultation, when fully operational they will become 40. They speak over 29 languages and "represent different professional, cultural, political and religious contexts and points of view". There are, among others, Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni politician and actor who in 2011 received the Nobel Peace Prize. Alan Rusbridger, former Guardian director who won the Pulitzer for the report on Edwared Snowden. Michael McConnell, a former United States federal judge now a professor of constitutional law at Stanford, specializing in free speech, religion and association.
"The cases that we will choose to deal with could be controversial and our decisions will not satisfy everyone - the Committee explains - we expect thousands of reports, we will give priority to cases that can potentially affect multiple users".