'A total disgrace and embarrassment to our country': Trump blasts 'radical left lunatics' on Facebook's Oversight Board for upholding Zuckerberg's ban on his accounts and warns big tech will pay a 'political price' for taking away his free speech
Former President Donald Trump says it is a 'total disgrace' that Facebook's Oversight Board is upholding the ban on his accounts, and says big tech will pay a 'political price' for taking away his free speech.
In an email to supporters on Wednesday, Trump fumed: 'What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.
'Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before.
'The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.'
Trump was banned from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in January in response to the Capitol riot, which the social media sites claim he stoked. It was an unprecedented move of censorship on a world leader and sparked a global debate over how much control social media and big tech should have over free speech.
It was then turned over to Facebook's Oversight Board to decide if it was the right thing to do.
The oversight board was set up by Facebook as an apparent self-check mechanism, amid growing calls for it to be split up because it is too powerful.
It is funded by Facebook- all of its 20 left-leaning members are paid six figures for doing approximately 15 hours of work a week. Its sole purpose is to rule on issues that are too big for Facebook or to make decisions it simply doesn't want to.
But in their decision on Wednesday, the five deciding board members (who are not named) refused to rule either way.
Republicans reacted furiously and the decision has only galvanized their efforts to break Facebook up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545469/Facebook-oversight-board-UPHOLDS-ban-Trumps-account.html
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