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May 10, 2021 12:34 AM EDT
Michael McConnell, a former federal judge and the Board Co-Chair of Facebook s Oversight Committee, said on Sunday that Facebook exercised too much power for imposing an indefinite ban on former Pres. Donald Trump from using Facebook, according to a published article on Fox News.
McConnell said they needed some time because their rules are in shambles. They are not transparent; they are unclear and are internally inconsistent, he said, adding that they made a series of recommendations about how to make their rules clearer and more consistent.
Facebook s Oversight Committee is an independent body whose members are not connected to Facebook. They are the ones who are given the authority to decide either to ban or to allow Trump to use Facebook again.
Facebook s oversight board upheld a ban on Donald Trump using the platform
The board criticised Facebook for applying vague penalties like the Trump ban
They said Facebook was avoiding its responsibilities by sending final decisions to the board to resolve whether the ban should be upheld or whether it is right
Critics of Facebook say the board has too narrow a focus to tackle extremism
Donald Trump. (Getty/SAUL LOEB)
Donald Trump threw a tantrum Wednesday (5 May) after Facebook’s oversight board upheld his ban on the social media platform.
Trump spoke after Facebook’s Oversight Committee, an independent, Facebook-appointed panel that scrutinises the company’s decisions, upheld his suspension from the platform.
From the Desk of Donald J Trump, to call bans by Facebook, as well as Twitter and Google-owned YouTube, “a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country”.
“Free Speech has been taken away from the president of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before,” he fumed in the blog post.