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The board deliberated for four months after Facebook itself appealed its own January ban of Trump. Trump had praised and encouraged the invasion of the US Capitol building on 6 January when five people died in the violence, in what was a clear assault not only on the process of legitimately selecting Trump’s successor but on American democracy itself.
In doing so, the board not only came to the most obvious short-term decision, it exposed the limits of its utility. Instead of considering more important questions about the role Facebook plays in politics and political violence around the world, or about how Facebook amplifies some messages and stifles others, or – crucially, in the case of Trump – how a political figure or party exploits Facebook’s features to degrade democracy or exact violence, the board took on the narrowest of questions: the regulation of particular expressions.
YOUTUBULAR BALLS: Niko Omilana, whose pranking of BBC London got lots of views but ignored some inconvenient, er, mainstream facts ONE of the biggest surprises in the London mayoral election campaign came last week when a Savanta ComRes poll for ITV News showed Niko Omilana, a 23-year-old YouTuber, on 5 percent, giving him, unlike other comedy candidates such as Count Binface and Laurence Fox, a fighting chance of retaining his deposit come 6 May. Virtually unheard-of by anyone over 30, Omilana has 3.43m subscribers to his YouTube channel, 1.1m followers on Instagram and a further 526,000 on Twitter, though the number of those resident in London and both old enough and bothered enough to vote is unknown.
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