An oversight board upheld a Facebook decision to restrict Trump’s accounts following the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. But the board said that it was “not appropriate” for the company to impose an “indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.”to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform.”
Facebook suspended Trump’s accounts following the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, with the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, saying that the then-president had used the platform to “incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.”. Other social media platforms followed in restricting Trump’s accounts, including Twitter, which announced a permanent ban.
“In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities,” the oversight board wrote. “The Board declines Facebook’s request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty.”was set up by the company to act as a neutral third party on content moderation decisions. It includes experts on technology, legal affairs, free speech, journalism and digital rights, many from academia and foundation.
The oversight board also offered a series of recommendations for how the platform handles incendiary content from political figures and what it described as other “influential users.” The board said that the rules should be publicly explained, and that “when Facebook imposes a time-limited suspension on the account of an influential user to reduce the risk of significant harm, it will assess whether the risk has receded before the suspension ends.
“This should be an open reflection on the design and policy choices that Facebook has made that may allow its platform to be abused,” the board said.
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you don’t have to tell us what he said. ever. just…stop.
why is this breaking news?
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