
Kenyan human rights activist & lawyer Maina Kiai has been appointed to Facebook’s oversight board as one of three African representatives making him one of the twenty people who can overrule Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook has found itself in a myriad of storms that it seemed unable to quell mostly relating to illegal mining of data for political reasons and failure to rein in on terrorism & human rights abuse related content on the platform.
Kiai, the Co-founder of Inform Action Kenya and Director of Global Alliances and Partnerships at Human Rights Watch (HRW) will be part of a team tasked with making decisions on content to be pulled down from Facebook and Instagram.