Facebook Oversight Board: The members who decide what to take down, what to leave up Terry Collins, USA TODAY
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They are referred to as The Supreme Court of Facebook. But the Facebook Oversight Board, a supposed global independent panel of 20 people featuring academic, political and civic leaders, doesn t appear to be looking for likes.
On Wednesday, the board upheld former President Donald Trump s ban from the social network but added that Facebook must review its decision to permanently ban him.
So just what is the Facebook Oversight Board? The body says it embraces the responsibility to answer some of the most difficult questions around freedom of expression online: what to take down, what to leave up, and why.
Facebook to announce this week if it will permanently dump Trump
Ex-president Trump has been banned from Facebook for months. (Getty Images)
Facebook will shortly decide on whether to uphold Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram after he was banned from the platforms earlier this year.
Facebook’s independent oversight board will make a decision on May 5 whether to uphold the ban on the former US president on a permanent basis.
In the first move of its kind, Mark Zuckerberg’s company suspended the former president in early January in the hours after an insurrection at the US Capital in Washington DC.
Bar-a-Lago: Facebook to review Trump ban
Facebook’s independent oversight board will review the company’s decision to ban former US president Donald Trump’s social media accounts.
Both Trump’s Facebook and Instagram profiles will remain suspended while the review is underway, the company announced.
In the first move of its kind, Mark Zuckerberg’s company suspended the former president earlier this month in the hours after an insurrection at the US Capital in Washington DC.
Facebook expressed concerns that Trump’s presence on the social media sites could stoke further civil unrest among supporters.
Trump last week became the first US president in history to be impeached twice, after a majority at the US House of Representatives formally charged him with inciting an insurrection.