6 from the former President “severely violated Facebook’s Community Standards and Instagram’s Community Guidelines,” which prohibit posts that praise of people engaged in violence.
The board upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts, writing in its decision that two posts on Jan. Zuckerberg wrote at the time, “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.” Trump’s accounts were suspended indefinitely.įacebook later referred the case to its independent Oversight Board. Trump had access to his Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram accounts cut off on January 7, a day after the deadly insurrection in Washington DC. Remind me, what happened to Trump’s Facebook account? Below, some frequent questions and answers about the board to help you get up to speed. If the idea of a Supreme Court for a social network leaves you with a lot of questions, well, you’re not the only one. The company must review the case and decide on a definite time period for the suspension - a permanent ban would be allowed, so long as it is not indefinite - within six months, the board ruled.
The board’s decision, announced Wednesday, upheld Facebook’s move to suspend Trump from its platforms, but said Facebook could not impose what it called the “arbitrary” penalty of an “indefinite” suspension. The decision was made by the Facebook Oversight Board, an independent body often described as a kind of Supreme Court for Facebook. So who made that call? Well, surprisingly, not company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The decision not to allow former President Donald Trump back on Facebook is the biggest, most contentious and most controversial single content moderation determination the company has ever made.
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