Nicolas Suzor

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Nicolas P. Suzor (born 30 September 1981) [1] is an Australian legal scholar and an associate professor of law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Since 2020, he has served as one of the inaugural members of Meta Platforms' independent Oversight Board, tasked with hearing . [2] His academic work focuses on the governance of social networks, the regulation of automated systems, and internet governance. [3] [4]

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Education and career

Suzor earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Queensland University of Technology. [5] In 2019 he published the book Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives, which examines the hidden systems of governance that shape online behavior. [6] [7] At QUT, he is also affiliated with the university's Digital Media Research Centre and has studied technology regulation for the bulk of his career. [5]

In 2012, Suzor published an article arguing that copyright law should be reformed in such a manner as to allow certain reuses of copyright material without the permission of the copyright owner where those derivatives are highly transformative and do not impact upon the primary market of the copyright owner. [8] In 2022, Suzor coauthored a study with Rosalie Gillett on the Reddit incel community, finding that punitive moderation often reinforced extremist beliefs rather than reducing them. [9] As a Meta Oversight Board member, he has publicly commented on Meta's content moderation decisions, including the 2023 reinstatement of former U.S. president Donald Trump's Facebook account, [10] and was among twenty-two Meta-affiliated individuals barred from entering Cambodia following the Board's recommendation to suspend the Facebook account of Prime Minister Hun Sen. [11] In 2025, he warned that Meta's decision to scale back fact-checking could heighten tensions on its platforms. [12]

References

  1. ↑ information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding Library of Congress Linked Data Service :  linked authority record n2018069645 . Retrieved on 2025-10-08.
  2. ↑ "Announcing the First Members of the Oversight Board". Oversight Board. Oversight Board. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Culliford, Elizabeth (May 6, 2020). "Factbox: Who are the first members of Facebook's oversight board?". Reuters.
  4. ↑ Ingram, David (May 6, 2020). "Facebook names 20 people to its 'Supreme Court' for content moderation". NBC News.
  5. 1 2 Koziol, Michael (May 8, 2021). "Meet the Australian on Facebook's 'Supreme Court'". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  6. ↑ Maroni, Marta (March 2021). "Book Review: Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives". European Journal of Risk Regulation. 12 (Special Issue 1): 264–271.
  7. ↑ Neilson, Tai (May 1, 2021). "Book Review: Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives". New Media & Society. 23 (5): 1336–1338. doi:10.1177/1461444821999816.
  8. ↑ Suzor, Nicolas (2006). "Transformative Use of Copyright Material". LLM Thesis. Queensland University of Technology. Archived from the original on 2010-05-05. Retrieved 2012-08-14.
  9. ↑ Kim, Eunice (September 25, 2022). "What Reddit did for accountability". The Guardian .
  10. ↑ Lock, Samantha (January 26, 2023). "'Reckless': Fury among rights groups as Facebook lifts Trump ban". The Guardian .
  11. ↑ "Cambodia bans 22 members of the Board of Directors of Meta Platforms Inc. from entering country". Khmer Times. July 4, 2023.
  12. ↑ Bonyhady, Nick (January 7, 2025). "Australian on Meta's 'Supreme Court' warns of tensions over fact-checking curb". The Sydney Morning Herald.
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