Sarah T. Roberts presents to the Institute

Judging Themselves: Facebook as Extrastate Sovereign (and Why We Should Worry).

In this brief and nascent talk (followed by lively collective discussion), Professor Sarah T. Roberts (UCLA) will offer an analysis of what Facebook is _really_ up to with its Oversight Board, and what the activation of that body reveals about Facebook’s vision of itself in the world. Spoiler alert: the vision is nothing short of a combination of soft power (Nye) _and_ extrastate sovereignty (Ong; Easterling), and _that_ is nothing short of ominous.