前总统川普将继续被Facebook, Instagram封禁至少6个月。
Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump suspension
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Catch up: What we learned this morning about Facebook's decision to keep banning Trump
Facebook's court-like Oversight Board
announced this morning that the social network can keep blocking former President Trump from using its platform, affirming the company's decision to suspend Trump in January after the US Capitol riots.
If you're just reading in now, here's what you need to know about the decision — and what comes next:
- What happened today: The Oversight Board — an independent entity for appealing content decisions on Facebook-owned platforms, which is made up of 20 experts in areas like free expression, human rights, and journalism — said Facebook can keep blocking former President Trump from using its platform.
- The decision must be reviewed again: However, the board said Facebook must review the decision within six months. "Within six months of this decision, Facebook must reexamine the arbitrary penalty it imposed on January 7 and decide the appropriate penalty," the board wrote, adding such penalty "must be based on the gravity of the violation and the prospect of future harm." Facebook said in a statement that it will "consider the board’s decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate."
- Criticism within the ruling: The board also criticized Facebook for having made the suspension indefinite. "In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities," the decision said.
- About the initial ban: Former President Trump was suspended "indefinitely" from Facebook and Instagram on Jan. 7, a day after his supporters stormed the Capitol in a bid to overturn the 2020 election results. Mark Zuckerberg wrote at the time, "We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great." Twitter and YouTube took similar steps, citing an ongoing risk of violence and incitement.
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Facebook's oversight board puts Trump decision back to Zuckerberg
Analysis from CNN's Donie O’Sullivan
The Facebook Oversight Board was designed to make some of Facebook’s most difficult decisions for the company. But
on Wednesday, the board put one of the biggest dilemmas facing the platform back on Facebook and the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The board said Facebook was right to suspend Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but said Facebook couldn’t just make the suspension “indefinite” with no actual rule on its books allowing for that.
The board said Facebook must review the decision and figure out if Trump should be banned from the platform forever.
The board could have made that decision itself, but by choosing to hand the decision back to Facebook it once again puts Zuckerberg’s powerful role in overseeing public discourse in the United States in the spotlight, along with the arbitrary nature of how Facebook moderates it platform.
Facebook has six months from today to decide Trump’s fate.
Notably, the board also told Facebook it needed to consider several other measures, including “a comprehensive review of Facebook’s potential contribution to the narrative of electoral fraud and the exacerbated tensions that culminated in the violence in the United States on January 6.”
The board said such a review “should be an open reflection on the design and policy choices that Facebook has made that may allow its platform to be abused.”