What does the Facebook Oversight Board do?

The Week in Tech is now a roundtable! Every Friday, Oz and three of the best writers covering Silicon Valley will discuss the latest news, decode emerging trends and debate what actually matters for the future of technology and for us. This week, guests Reed Albergotti (Semafor), ...  Show more

Iran's Shahed drone costs $30,000 to build. The US missile sent to destroy it? Up to $4 million. Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict journalist Ben C. Solomon wants you to do the math. Oz sits down with Ben to break down the economics driving the conflict with Iran, why the Pentagon ...  Show more

Kara and Scott are back! They talk about Zuckerberg's supposed shift towards more privacy on Facebook and, well, we'll believe it when we see it. Meanwhile Congress is ramping up its efforts on shaking up how we think of antitrust and big tech companies. They get into what they e ...  Show more

Was Facebook right to indefinitely bar former President Donald J. Trump from the platform after the Capitol riot?

The company’s oversight board, which rules on some of the thorniest speech decisions on the platform, decided that, while the ban was justified at the time, ...

For nearly seven hours on Monday, billions of people around the world couldn't use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp to communicate. Facebook blamed a technical glitch for one of its worst outages in years. What does this say about our reliance on social media? And has Facebook bec ...  Show more

We review the news that Cambridge Analytica used data collected via Facebook to potentially influence voter preferences. We also talk about what could this mean for users, whether it’s realistic to actually #deletefacebook, and things you should be aware of even if you feel you h ...  Show more