Facebook Can't Win Its Moderation Dilemma

Proposed legislation goes after the tech platform in multiple ways

The "Like" logo is displayed at Facebook Inc. headquarters in Menlo Park, California.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Facebook Inc. is hard at work crafting its own Supreme Court of content moderation—just as it works to make much of its content impossible for it to review.

This week, Facebook hired the director of its oversight board and released material about the review process. Most cases are expected to take 90 days—which the company that gave us the motto “move fast and break things” surely knows is an eternity in the world of the internet.