Explainer | What is Facebook’s Oversight Board?
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Facebook’s Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social media network’s decision on January 7 to block the then-US President Donald Trump from its platform. Facebook had decided to indefinitely bloc
Facebook’s Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social media network’s decision on January 7 to block the then-US President Donald Trump from its platform. Facebook had decided to indefinitely block Mr. Trump for using the platform to, as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg put it then, “incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.” A day earlier, with just two weeks to go for Mr. Biden’s inauguration, Mr. Trump’s supporters gathered around Capitol Hill and in the violence that ensued, five lives were lost. Twice during the protests of January 6, Mr. Trump’s posts, asserting that the 2020 election was stolen, were removed for violating Facebook’s community standards. Those assertions couldn’t be proved in the court of law. After the second post, he was blocked for 24 hours from the platform. The next day Facebook extended the block indefinitely. And on January 21, it referred the case to its Oversight Board. Here’s more about the board:
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