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The Oversight Board process isn’t about Donald Trump’s free speech. It’s about Facebook’s power.
Yaël Eisenstat is a Future of Democracy fellow at the Berggruen Institute and a Researcher-in-Residence at Betalab, an early-stage investment program catalyzing startup activity around “Fixing The Internet”. In 2018, she was Facebook’s Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for political ads. Previously, she spent 18 years working around the globe as a CIA officer, a White House advisor, a diplomat, and the head of a global political risk firm.
The Oversight Board process isn’t about Donald Trump’s free speech. It’s about Facebook’s power.