{"id":18498,"date":"2020-05-09T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hitzmakers.com\/?p=18498"},"modified":"2020-05-09T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:19:45","slug":"ghanaian-gets-top-job-at-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hitzmakers.com\/ghanaian-gets-top-job-at-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian gets top job at Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitzmakers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AFIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Ghanaian human rights lawyer and Programme Manager, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, has been appointed Board Member of the New Global Independent \u2018Oversight Board\u2019 for Facebook and Instagram Content.<br \/>\nShe joins two other Africans \u2013 Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Fronti\u00e8res from Cameroon and Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s Global Alliances and Partnerships programme from Kenya on the 20-member Oversight Board.<br \/>\nThe Oversight Board is expected to tackle increasingly complex and contentious debates about what types of content should and should not be permitted on Facebook and Instagram and who should decide.<br \/>\nThe Board will prioritise cases that potentially impact many users, are of critical importance to public discourse, or raise questions about Facebook\u2019s policies.<br \/>\nDecisions made by the Board must be implemented by Facebook, as long as they do not violate the law. Oversight Board Members are independent of the company, funded by an independent trust and cannot be removed by Facebook based on their decisions.<br \/>\n\u201cThe very act of creating this Board shows Facebook has taken the criticism levelled against it seriously and I hope my membership can help address some of these criticisms. I am particularly focused on the Board\u2019s role in improving transparency and accountability, and creating an appeal process where people can bring their content issues. I feel strongly that the Board needs to be truly representative, not just in terms of geography, but age, subject matter and breadth of issues covered as well,\u201d Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei said.<br \/>\nShe will work in collaboration with 19 other members who speak over 27 languages and have diverse professional, cultural, political, and religious backgrounds and viewpoints.<br \/>\nOver time, the Board will grow to around 40 members.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Class Fm<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian human rights lawyer and Programme Manager, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, has been appointed Board Member of the New Global Independent \u2018Oversight Board\u2019 for Facebook and Instagram Content. 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Oversight Board Members are independent of the company, funded by an independent trust and cannot be removed by Facebook based on their decisions.\u201cThe very act of creating this Board shows Facebook has taken the criticism levelled against it seriously and I hope my membership can help address some of these criticisms. I am particularly focused on the Board\u2019s role in improving transparency and accountability, and creating an appeal process where people can bring their content issues. I feel strongly that the Board needs to be truly representative, not just in terms of geography, but age, subject matter and breadth of issues covered as well,\u201d Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei said.She will work in collaboration with 19 other members who speak over 27 languages and have diverse professional, cultural, political, and religious backgrounds and viewpoints.Over time, the Board will grow to around 40 members.Source: Class FM\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitzmakers.com\/ghanaian-gets-top-job-at-facebook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Download MP3: Ghanaian gets top job at Facebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Ghanaian human rights lawyer and Programme Manager, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, has been appointed Board Member of the New Global Independent \u2018Oversight Board\u2019 for Facebook and Instagram Content.She joins two other Africans \u2013 Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Fronti\u00e8res from Cameroon and Maina Kiai, a human rights activist and Director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s Global Alliances and Partnerships programme from Kenya on the 20-member Oversight Board.The Oversight Board is expected to tackle increasingly complex and contentious debates about what types of content should and should not be permitted on Facebook and Instagram and who should decide.The Board will prioritise cases that potentially impact many users, are of critical importance to public discourse, or raise questions about Facebook\u2019s policies.Decisions made by the Board must be implemented by Facebook, as long as they do not violate the law. 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