(Menlo Park, CA) Facebook is upholding former President Trump's suspension on the platform. However, the Oversight Board says the social media giant must reconsider the indefinite suspension. Facebook now has six months to reassess what the board called an "arbitrary penalty." The board faulted Trump for two posts he made on January 6th, the day of the deadly attack on the
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America may have to wait another six months to find out whether Facebook has the capacity to make a good decision.
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On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board announced that it would uphold the social media network’s decision to suspend Donald Trump from its main site and Instagram after he rallied his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a failed effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race. It also ruled that when Facebook announced Trump would be banned “indefinitely” and punted the final decision on whether it would become permanent to the board, it was just arbitrarily making shit up.
Facebook may have hoped someone else would take the tricky - and politically-nightmarish - decision about whether Donald Trump should be permanently suspended,