Facebook Oversight Board member says permanent Trump ban is unfair

Published May 6, 2021 3:39pm ET



A member of Facebook’s independent Oversight Board said Thursday that the platform invented new, unfair rules to justify banning former President Donald Trump indefinitely, in ways that other users haven’t been punished before.

Facebook’s independent Oversight Board announced Wednesday that Trump will remain banned from the company’s platform after his accounts on Facebook and Instagram were suspended indefinitely following his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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