"Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before," Mr. Trump issued a statement through his Save America PAC that did not acknowledge the review process, but instead said Facebook, Twitter and Google are an "embarrassment." ĭan Howley is the tech editor at Yahoo Finance. Max Zahn is a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Made up of an international team of experts including lawyers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and former political leaders, the oversight board’s independence has been criticized because each member receives a salary from an independent trust funded by Facebook to the tune of $130 million, according to the New Yorker. The ruling by Facebook’s oversight board is considered final with even Zuckerberg unable to overrule the group’s decision. Republicans in Congress have pounded on the issue as another example of what they describe as a conservative bias, though no evidence of such a coordinated effort has ever been brought forward. 8, have received considerable blowback from their treatment of the former president. In a March survey of 11,698 Yahoo Finance readers, 77% of self-identified Republicans said Trump should be allowed back on the platform, while 75% of Democrats called for suspension to stand.įacebook and fellow social media company Twitter ( TWTR), which permanently banned Trump on Jan.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, meanwhile, told Yahoo Finance that a permanent ban would be an “extreme measure” and “a shame.” “Social Media networks are not utilities,” Cuban told Yahoo Finance in a February interview. Politicians and business leaders have been split over Facebook’s decision with some like billionaire investor Mark Cuban saying that the move was Facebook’s to make. 7, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that allowing Trump to continue to use the platform to condone the actions of his supporters at the Capitol was too dangerous and suspended the then-president indefinitely.
REUTERS/ Philip Sears TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia February 29, 2016. An 'emergency situation'įacebook originally moved against Trump’s account as the attack on the Capitol was unfolding.Įarlier that day, Trump and his associates helped galvanize his supporters during a rally in which he repeatedly lied about the outcome of the 2020 election, and called on former Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election results. Trump’s accounts remain suspended," Facebook said. We will now consider the board’s decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate. "Instead, the board criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension. In responding to the board's decision, Facebook pointed out that it does not require Trump's accounts to be restored immediately but also does not address how long they should be suspended. The board outlined a number of recommendations for how Facebook can handle potentially harmful content from influential accounts, including employing specialized staff who can evaluate political speech.
"Facebook’s normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account," the decision stated.
The board described Facebook's decision to suspend Trump's account indefinitely as a "vague, standardless penalty" that is not described in the social media company's content policies. "The Board insists that Facebook review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform," the decision stated. However, the board found it was "not appropriate" for Facebook to impose an indefinite suspension and asked the company to review the decision within the next six months. Facebook's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's decision to suspend former President Donald Trump's account following the Jan.
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