Before, during, and after the 2020 presidential election, Facebook allowed Trump to spread disinformation, amplify hate speech and incite violence with impunity. The former president is a known pe rpetrator of disinformation and hate speech, but the platform repeatedly refused to hold him to any standard. “But we did not have to get to this point had Facebook i nvested in strong enforcement mechanisms and consistently enforced its civic integrity policies. Whatever decision Facebook decides is potentially reviewable by the Oversight Board, creating an endless cycle of uncertainty. In the next six months, the platform could decide to permanently ban or restore Trump’s account. While the ruling upholds the temporary suspension of Trump’s account, it effectively punts the decision back to Facebook to apply one of its existing policies to deter mine the future of the former president’s account. “ The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision exposes many of the flaws in the platform’s existing content moderation policies and practices. Statement of Yosef Getachew, Common Cause Media and Democracy Program Director Within six months, the Oversight Board directed Facebook to reexamine the indefinite suspension of Trump’s account and decide the appropriate penalty.Ĭommon Cause members submitted over 23,000 comments to the Oversight Board expressing outrage over Facebook’s failure to consistently enforce its civic integrity policies, which allowed Trump to spread massive amounts of disinformation and use the platform to incite violence. However, the Facebook Oversight Board found it was inappropriate for Facebook to indefinitely suspend Trump’s account without establishing criteria for w hen or whether accounts will be restored after an indefinite suspension. Facebook’s decision to indefinitely suspend Trump’s account followed the former president’s actions, utilizing the platform to incite the violent and deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Today, the Facebook Oversight Board announced its decision to uphold Facebook’s suspension of former U.S.
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