Zuckerberg visited the White House more than once, dining privately with Mr.
The two men appeared cordial during occasional meetings in Washington. He said speech by political leaders - even if they spread lies - was newsworthy and in the public interest. But as calls from lawmakers, civil rights leaders and even Facebook’s own employees grew to rein in Mr. Trump’s policies, including the handling of the pandemic and immigration. Zuckerberg occasionally criticized some of Mr. He also threatened to revoke Section 230, a legal shield that protects companies like Facebook from liability for what users post. Trump regularly assailed Silicon Valley executives for what he perceived to be their suppression of conservative speech. More than 32 million people followed him on Facebook, though that was far fewer than the more than 88 million followers he had on Twitter. Trump, Facebook was long a place to rally his digital base and support other Republicans. “Facebook has been clearly abused by influential users,” said Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a co-chair of the Oversight Board.įacebook does not have to adopt these recommendations but said it “will carefully review” them.įor Mr. The board also said Facebook should clarify its strikes and penalties process, and develop and publish a policy that governs responses to crises or novel situations where its regular processes would not prevent imminent harm. On Wednesday, the board suggested the company should publicly explain when it was applying special rules to influential figures, though it should impose definite time limits when doing so.
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Trump’s case, Facebook also asked the board for recommendations on how to handle the accounts of political leaders. “Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth,” he said.
But he slammed Facebook, Google and Twitter - some of which have been major fund-raising platforms for him - and called them corrupt.
Trump did not directly address the board’s ruling. On Wednesday, House Republican leaders moved to expel Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming from her leadership post for criticizing Mr. Trump still holds tremendous sway over Republicans, with his false claims of a stolen election continuing to reverberate. Trump’s Facebook account remains suspended, he may be able to return to the social network once the company reviews its action. Trump in January after the insurrection at the Capitol building, saying the risk and potential for violence that he created were too great.īut while Mr. Trump rejoining mainstream social media, a key source of his clout that he used during his White House years to directly cajole his tens of millions of followers, exploit their grievances, set policy and criticize opponents. The board gave Facebook six months to make a final decision on Mr. It said that an indefinite suspension was “not appropriate” because it was not a penalty defined in Facebook’s policies and that the company should apply a standard punishment, such as a time-bound suspension or a permanent ban. Trump after the insurrection in Washington in January, saying he “created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.” The panel said that ongoing risk “justified” the move.īut the board also kicked the case back to Facebook and its top executives. Trump to mainstream social media and renewing a debate about tech power over online speech.įacebook’s Oversight Board, which acts as a quasi-court over the company’s content decisions, ruled the social network was right to bar Mr. Trump, ending any immediate return by Mr. SAN FRANCISCO - A Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers on Wednesday upheld the social network’s ban of former President Donald J.
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