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Facebook Board Upholds Trump Ban, Demands Platform Clarify Standards

Emily Zanotti
Facebook Board Upholds Trump Ban, Demands Platform Clarify Standards
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The Facebook Oversight Board — a panel of “journalists, activists, and lawyers,” per The New York Times — announced Wednesday morning that they would uphold the social media platform’s ban against former President Donald Trump, though it admitted the standard for banning figures is vague and requires clarification.

The board, though, also noted that the initial decision to ban Trump without an intermediate warning or punishment was “not appropriate” and that the ban should not be indefinite. They then demanded the platform revisit the suspension in six months after it has had a chance to clarify the standards by which is institutes bans.

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