The indictment is a wild ride, with a number of Americans listed as unindicted co-conspirators.To discuss, Quinta Jurecic sat down with Thomas Rid-professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and author of a book on Eastern bloc influence operations called “Active Measures”-and Brandon Van Grack, a partner and co-chair of the National Security and Crisis Management practices at the law firm Morrison and Foerster and a former official at the Justice Department, where-among other things-he served as senior assistant special counsel to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government”-and the Justice Department alleges that he was essentially running a years-long influence operation within the United States on behalf of the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency. Ionov is charged with “conspiring to have U.S. On July 29, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Aleksandr Ionov, a Russian national and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia.
OVERSIGHT BOARD BOARDDOUEKLAWFARE SERIES
On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic talked about what the data shows about what cases the Board is taking, how the Board’s role seems to be evolving, and, of course, whether we’re going to have to start calling this the Meta Oversight Board, thanks to Facebook’s name change. Meanwhile, Lawfare is keeping track of developments on our Facebook Oversight Board Blog, run by the inimitable Tia Sewell.
OVERSIGHT BOARD BOARDDOUEKLAWFARE UPDATE
In October, the Board released its first transparency report, and Facebook-now Meta-has published its own update on how it’s been responding to the Board’s decisions and recommendations. So we thought it was a good time to check in on how this experiment in platform governance is faring. It’s been roughly a year since the Facebook Oversight Board opened its doors for business-and while you may mostly remember the board from its decision on Donald Trump’s suspension from Facebook, but there’s been a lot going on since then.
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