Still, it seemed clear that Facebook needed some intelligent and powerful judgment at the top, because so many truly awful things were happening there. A complete lie about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump for president went viral, read by countless millions of users. Meanwhile, some misguided censor removed a famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo about the brutality of war after assessing it to be child pornography. He noted, too, that because the board’s mandate is so limited, it “can’t say anything about the toxic content that Facebook allows and promotes on the site. That “buys up potential dissent or criticism.”Facebook hasn’t said how much board members are paid, but it has created a $130 million trust to fund the effort, possibly after finding precisely that amount in the couch cushions at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2020 16:04 UTC