In the first, Trump told rioters: “We love you. The board found that two Trump posts on January 6 “severely violated” Facebook’s standards. Other leading social media platforms also booted Trump in the wake of the riot, with Twitter, where Trump has 88 million followers, saying its ban would be permanent. “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page on January 7. The incident followed a weeks-long disinformation campaign by Trump and his allies claiming that the election had been “stolen”. Facebook’s oversight board said that Donald Trump’s remarks praising the rioters on January 6, 2021, violated its community standards įacebook, which owns Instagram, suspended Trump a day after rioters stormed the US Capitol as legislators met to certify the victory of President Joe Biden. Having access to those social media followers really does help him with fundraising for himself and his sizeable legal problems, but it could influence how people vote in the Republican primaries”.Ī new section was added to Trump’s personal website on Tuesday allowing him to share personal social posts. He still has a firm grip on the Republican Party. “This is a man who still wants to be relevant. “This removes a pretty big platform for him at least in the short term,” Al Jazeera correspondent Patty Culhane, in Washington, DC, said. Psaki pointed out that she was not singling out any specific individual or group with her remarks.įor now, Trump will remain unable to put postings on Facebook. Psaki did say that Biden’s “view is that the major platforms have a responsibility, related to health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content disinformation and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19 vaccinations and elections”.
President Joe Biden has not commented on the announcement and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said they “would not have any comments on the future of the former president’s social media.” “They shouldn’t have a monopoly, and yet Google and Facebook and YouTube actually control much of what America sees … it is time that we break up big tech, not just regulate it.” “This is a sad day for America,” Meadows told Fox News. Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was also quick to slam the decision. “Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth,” Trump continued, adding, “These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.” Without access to Facebook or Twitter, which unlike Facebook permanently banned him, Trump in a press release called the bans “a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.” “In the meantime, Mr Trump’s accounts remain suspended,” he wrote. Nick Clegg, Facebook vice president of global affairs and communication, said in a blog entry that Facebook “will now consider the board’s decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate”. The panel called on the company within six months to “review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform”. However, the board determined it was “not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension”, with Michael McConnell, co-chair of the panel, telling reporters “indefinite penalties of this sort, do not pass the international or American smell test for clarity, consistency, and transparency”. “The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account,” the 20-person panel said in its decision. A semi-autonomous oversight board for Facebook has upheld a suspension of former US President Donald Trump, but orders a review to be conducted by the social media giant within six months.
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