The Board insists that Facebook review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform. That includes how social media companies should draw the line between speech and violence or moderate political figures going forward.
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"The board completely dodged in the sense that if they were really on the side of society, if they were really on the side of the people, they would have suggested to Facebook that they should ban Donald Trump."Įither way, the back-and-forth means the most complicated questions about the decision are left on the table. "I can imagine that what ends up happening is very different from what the board imagined," Donovan said. He is currently suspended "indefinitely," a one-off penalty outside Facebook's usual rules. Capitol, Zuckerberg turned that hard decision over to that newly formed independent panel, the Oversight Board, for review, hoping it would make the final determination.īut on Wednesday, the 20-member panel punted the decision back to Facebook, recommending the company decide within six months whether to permanently ban or restore Trump's account. 6 for social media posts encouraging the mob that stormed the U.S. He went so far as to dedicate $130 million to fund an independent panel of outside experts to which the company could outsource the thorniest decisions about what types of content - and voices - should be allowed to stay up on Facebook.
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For several years, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has pushed the idea that he and his company shouldn't be in the position of creating the rules of the road to govern the personal expression of billions of people.