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Facebook Gives Trump Two Year Suspension, Will Extend If ‘Experts’ Decide A ‘Serious Risk To Public Safety’ Exists

Ian Haworth
Facebook Gives Trump Two Year Suspension, Will Extend If ‘Experts’ Decide A ‘Serious Risk To Public Safety’ Exists
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On Friday, Facebook announced that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from their platforms for two years, and would only be reinstated if certain conditions were met.

In a blog post, vice president of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, responded to Facebook’s Oversight Board and their criticism of the “open-ended nature of the suspension,” having said that “it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.”

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