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4 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Facebook's Trump decision: suspended for 2 years. Best of it is that they will then consult outside experts and consider his behavior and conditions at the time before deciding whether to reinstate.
about.fb.com/news/2021/06/f…
Now the hard question is: How does Facebook apply this to other authoritarians?
Facebook says in response to Oversight Board that it will implement fully this recommendation: "Facebook should suspend the accounts of high government officials, such as heads of state, if their posts repeatedly pose a risk of harm."
transparency.fb.com/oversight/over…
I still think Facebook's original "indefinite suspension" of Trump was better than this but for that blame rests solely with the Oversight Board. In a sense this is still indefinite as it depends on Trump's behavior in the meantime, it just creates more dates for trouble.

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This is good, as far as it goes. It is written from journalism's perspective without acknowledging media's larger strategy, its moral panic, against technology, playing out not only in print but in lobbying governments. 1/
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Now here's Niall Ferguson on TV making excused for Donald Trump and the pandemic.
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N.B., @JoeNBC, that @BrendanNyhan said *elite* messages are where danger lurks: not your average Facebook post but lies from politicians and that other cable "news" channel that exploit group identity. 1/
What can we do? I'm working on a post arguing that we in media need to provide other paths for belonging: e.g., demonstrating to parents that they share concerns and needs as the start of conversation and journalism, rather than setting groups against each other. 2/
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I have spoken. I gave @ginoseast five pies in my very scientific survey/boondoggle for @people. (God, those were the days.)
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Here is my full report for People, thank goodness without the embarrassing picture of me in a red-striped pizza chef's outfit.
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Legal Twitter is enjoying the nuances of the Oversight Board decision while information, political, and tech Twitter are viewing it through other sides of the prism, looking more at the impact, I think.
Many are enjoying the bind the Oversight Board put Facebook in. Meanwhile, that bind will be exploited by Trump et al over the next six months, doing more damage to the net as self-appointed net watchdogs from both right and left imagine new torture for #230, etc.
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