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All The Citizens
All The Citizens is a UK-based advocacy group founded by Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr and colleagues Clara Maguire and Kerry Shaw.

The group's website says that it comprises "around 80 volunteers: journalists, filmmakers, advertising creatives, data scientists, artists, students, lawyers and many more."

The group was funded by philanthropic investment firm Luminate, which is owned by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Group. All The Citizens Limited was incorporated in August 2020.

Real Facebook Oversight Board
All The Citizens started an independent group of journalists, writers and other experts to review Facebook's handling of hate speech and misinformation, after Facebook repeatedly delayed setting up what it called the 'Independent Facebook Oversight Board'.

NBC reported that "Cadwalladr sees the board as a "brain trust" that brings together experts to scrutinize Facebook's decisions in a public forum." The board is supported by the Stop Hate For Profit Coalition, which organised an advertising boycott of Facebook in the summer of 2020. Cadwalladr said that the purpose of the group was meant as "an emergency response in this moment, given the risks that these people have been shouting about, and they’re not being heard”.

The board includes experts such as Shoshana Zuboff (author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism), Maria Ressa (co-founder of Rappler), Derrick Johnson (President of the NAACP), Reed Galen (co-founder of The Lincoln Project), Ruha Benjamin (associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton), Marietje Schaake, (a Dutch MEP), Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Safiya Noble, Damian Collins, Roger McNamee and Yael Eisenstat.

Facebook described the board as “mostly longtime critics creating a new channel for existing criticisms.”

Independent Sage