After Facebook issued a 2-year ban on former President Donald Trump, Trump responded in a statement that backed his supporters, and spoke about their rights to not be censored.
“Facebook’s ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others,” Trump said, “who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!”
Facebook announced on Friday that it will ban former president Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram for two years.
“Last month, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6,” Facebook said in a statement.
Facebook said that while the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s decision, it questioned the open-ended nature of the suspension.
“It was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension,” the Oversight Board stated.
“We are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr. Trump’s accounts,” Facebook said of the decision.
