Facebook’s ‘arbitrary,’ ‘inconsistent’ censorship follies

“Facebook exercises too much power,” the co-chairman of the social-media giant’s Oversight Board told Fox News on Sunday. Its decisions “are arbitrary, they are inconsistent, and it is the job of the oversight board to try to bring some discipline to that process.”

Indeed, its “rules are a shambles,” Michael McConnell said. “They are not transparent, they are unclear, they are internally inconsistent.” He was explaining the board’s decision on Facebook’s banning of former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Rather than decide itself, the panel left the ultimate call up to Facebook’s content moderators to restore Trump’s account or suspend it for a fixed period — or permanently: “Facebook must make its decision and be held accountable for what it decides.”