Stanford’s Pamela Karlan will serve as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s Civil Division after working less than a year on the Facebook council set up in 2019 to review the social media behemoth’s content censuring decisions.
“Working with my colleagues on the Oversight Board to build a fairer and more effective approach to content moderation has been an honor. The Board has a critical role to play in holding Facebook to account, and I will continue to watch their work with great admiration,” she said in the board’s release.
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The council, funded by Facebook but technically a separate organization, started accepting cases for review in October and has received over 180,000 appeals, settling less than a dozen. It’s currently reviewing Facebook’s ban on former President Donald Trump’s account.
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“Pam Karlan’s legal and civil rights expertise played an important part in shaping the Board and we’re grateful for her contributions. The Trustees and Board members congratulate Pam on her new role and wish her the very best,” said board spokesperson John Taylor in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times.
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She took leave from the team in the fall to assist Biden’s transition and wasn’t included in any of the adjudications the Facebook board carried, Taylor told Politico.
Karlan was listed as a volunteer on Biden’s DOJ agency review team.
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In 2019, she testified at Trump’s first impeachment trial, making a joke at the expense of his son, which she later regretted. During one public appearance, she quipped that she “had to cross the street” to avoid sharing the street side with Trump’s Washington hotel.
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In 2013-2014, she served as deputy assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Division.
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In 2009, The New York Times presented her as the favorite potential Supreme Court pick of “the left.”
Karlan’s journey matches a path of revolving doors between Facebook and Democrat administrations.
Last month, Facebook hired Roy Austin, an Obama administration veteran and member of Biden’s transition team, as the company’s vice president of civil rights and deputy general counsel.
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Former Facebook associate general counsel Jessica Hertz was the Biden transition’s general counsel and is now the president’s White House staff secretary. Jeffrey Zients—Biden’s coronavirus czar—served on Facebook’s board of directors from 2018 to 2020. Austin Lin, a former program manager at Facebook, was reportedly chosen for a deputy role at White House’s Office of Management and Administration. Erskine Bowles, a former Facebook board member, advised the transition team.
Hertz, Zients, and Lin held roles in the Obama administration. Bowles served as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff.
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