Khaled Mansour
Khaled Mansour is a writer and communication expert with many years of experience at the United Nations and as a foreign correspondent. He has worked and written on political issues, human rights, humanitarian aid, and peacekeeping in addition to his fiction work. As a journalist and then a UN spokesperson, he worked for years in conflict and transitional situations such as in South Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and the Sudan in addition to his work on US politics in Washington DC in the 1990s and at the UN headquarters in New York. Before he became a full-time writer in 2015, he was the Executive Director of Egypt's leading human rights organization, EIPR (2013-2014). He published seven books, mostly in Arabic. His debut novel, “A Minefield” and his memoirs on Afghanistan, “From Taliban to Taliban” appeared in Arabic in early 2022. He joined META Oversight Board in 2022 and keeps a blog at khaledmansour.org
Sessions
The Oversight Board was created to help Meta answer some of the most difficult questions around freedom of expression: what to take down, what to leave up, and why. In October 2020, this group of independent experts started accepting cases. They analyze moderation decisions by looking to international human rights laws and principles. Two years on, they have issued decisions on the most challenging issues facing Facebook and Instagram - from the conflicts in Ethiopia and Israel/Palestine to COVID-19 misinformation and the suspension of President Trump. This panel will explore what has worked and ways to improve.
Educate the audience about cutting edge tools to build archives that are of benefit to researchers and journalists as well as online exhibitions that should attract the youth and the public at large through using vetted private and public data collections. Engage in discussions around how to fight disinformation and misinformation through building such an archive that can then be equipped with audience-generated material.