Facebook’s Oversight Board has decided the fate of Trump’s account. Here’s everything you need to know. wapo.st/339UDp1
It’s been four months since former president Donald Trump was last allowed to post on Facebook, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was banned “indefinitely.”
The suspension came after Trump weaponized the Web to help stoke a riot at the U.S. Capitol. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Trump has lost much of his direct online communication with supporters since the major social media networks kicked him off in January.
He still has been sending out news releases and messages to supporters, however. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Tension had been building between Trump and Facebook for nearly six years before the company indefinitely suspended him after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
From June 2020: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
The impending decision by the Oversight Board, a less than one-year-old body that describes itself as an “experiment” in the regulation of online speech, could be the most consequential decision ever regarding free speech on social media, experts say. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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