Data Transparency Advisory Group
Summary
Facebook’s Data Transparency Advisory Group (DTAG) assessed Facebook’s methods of measuring and reporting on its Community Standards enforcement policies. DTAG was chaired by Tracey L. Meares and Tom R. Tyler, who are the faculty directors of the Justice Collaboratory. Facebook chartered DTAG (a) to assess the metrics included in the first two versions of its Community Standards Enforcement Report, (b) to provide recommendations for how to improve its measurement and reporting practices, and (c) to produce a public report on its findings.
Approach
The Justice Collaboratory’s work focuses on exploring empirically the ways in which people form trust in and come to conclusions about legitimacy of institutions. While most of our research focuses on criminal justice, we worked with colleagues in DTAG from several disciplines to apply our ideas and methods about legitimacy and trust to analyze Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report.
Funding
Funded by Facebook. DTAG was an independent advisory board, meaning its members were not employees of Facebook. As is standard for technology industry scientific advisory boards, the members of DTAG received financial compensation in the form of a pre-determined, fixed honorarium, paid prior to its assessment and reporting. Because DTAG’s compensation was paid in full before the report was written, it is not tied to any conclusions, assessments, or recommendations in the report. Decisions about whether and how to implement DTAG’s recommendations will be made by solely by Facebook.
Publications
Researchers
Professor, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London
Florian Grisel
Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Reader in Transnational Law, King’s College London
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Emily Owens
Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Baron L. Pineda
Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Oberlin College
Jacob N. Shapiro
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School