Politico
May 04, 2021 5:00 PM ET
The cast of Americans includes two prominent conservative figures former federal judge Michael McConnell and John Samples, vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute. Alongside them are two other lawyers steeped in debates around online speech, Columbia Law professor Jamal Greene and University of Oklahoma law professor Evelyn Aswad.
Greene has been critical of Trump as a person and politician, calling him a serial liar, a sexual predator . a white nationalist, a plutocrat and a professional con artist and tweeting about his “unfitness” for office. But he’s struck a more cautious tone in discussing how the board should approach a case about the former president’s right to free expression, telling NPR that the board needs to “have all the facts” and strike “a proper deliberative posture” before making a call on Trump’s suspension.
Donald Trump s Facebook Future Will Be Decided by These People
On 5/4/21 at 11:37 AM EDT
Facebook s Oversight Board is planning to announce whether or not former President Donald Trump will be able to return to the social media platform on Wednesday.
Trump was indefinitely locked out of his Facebook account after he was accused of using his social media platforms to incite a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot on January 6.
The following day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergwrote in a post that the risk of continuing to allow Trump to use Facebook and Instagram during the presidential transition period was simply too great.
Facebook has internal guidelines which are not publicly available on moderation
Newly uncovered documents reveal the sentences that are and aren t allowed
One not allowed is: It’s disgusting and repulsive how fat and ugly John Smith is
But the document adds: We do not remove content like “frizzy hair,” “lanky arms,” “broad shoulders,” since “frizzy,” “lanky,” and “broad,” are not deficient
Recent graduate Colton Oakley says he was banned from posting for three days after calling those who are angry about loan cancellation sad and selfish
Writer Alex Gendler claims he was stopped from posting for a number of days after sharing a Smithsonian magazine story on tribal New Guinea
Facebook banned Trump in January, blaming him for the Capitol riot on Jan 6
The social media giant then turned the issue over to its oversight board
It claims the board is impartial and independent but the majority are left-leaning scholars, human rights activists and politicians
Trump has also been banned by Twitter and even an interview he gave was banned on Facebook
Facebook is becoming stricter in censoring conservative voices with which it disagrees
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