Trump.” But his unglued missives about what losers Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney are just aren’t the same when you don’t encounter them in the wild. He’s tried to get back into posting via a sad section of his personal website called “From the Desk of Donald J. Sure, his presence in politics has been felt like a phantom limb, but save for the odd statement criticizing the Oscars or the occasional rant to a wedding party at Mar-a-Lago, he’s mostly become a nonentity.
Trump was the first truly online president, and without social media to inject his every demented thought into the cultural bloodstream, he’s been pretty easy to ignore.
That would seem to be an argument in support of removing Trump permanently-a decision that could have significant implications for his political prospects. It wasn’t fully clear Wednesday what precedent the decision from Facebook’s “Supreme Court” would set, but the board did criticize the company for a lack of transparency, and urged it to review “its contribution to the narrative of electoral fraud and political tensions that led to the events of January 6.” It also took aim at one of Facebook’s default defenses for leaving potentially dangerous content by Trump and other toxic public figures on the platform: “The ‘newsworthiness’ of a public figure’s remarks should never take priority over urgent action to prevent harm,” the Oversight Board wrote. The final decision on Trump’s account, Facebook said, would be made by the independent oversight board it had established last year. While Jack Dorsey said Twitter would close Trump’s account permanently, Zuckerberg only committed to keeping him off through the transfer of power. Naturally, the MAGA right accused the tech giants of censoring conservatives. The platforms suspended him and some allies over concerns that he would incite more violence, particularly as Joe Biden’s inauguration approached. Trump was temporarily booted from Facebook and Instagram in January, and permanently exiled from his beloved Twitter, after instigating the deadly attack on the United States Capitol as lawmakers convened to certify the results of the 2020 election. “We call on Facebook to ensure that if a head of state or high government official repeatedly posts messages that pose a risk of harm under international human rights norms, the company should either suspend the account for a set period or delete it.” “Facebook cannot make up the rules as it goes, and anyone concerned about its power should be concerned about allowing this,” the board wrote. But, the independent board said in its highly-anticipated verdict, Facebook improperly imposed an “indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension” against Trump and should review the matter “within six months of the date of this decision,” essentially punting the decision to keep him off permanently back to Zuckerberg.
The company’s Oversight Board on Wednesday announced that Mark Zuckerberg was within his rights to suspend the former president’s account earlier this year, and may be able to continue banning him. Facebook can keep Donald Trump off its platform-for now.
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