Today, Facebook’s Oversight Board has issued a two-year suspension to twice-impeached serial misinformer and insurrection-inciter Donald Trump’s Facebook page and his Instagram account that is effective until at least January 7th, 2023, with the suspension beginning retroactively backdated to January 7th, 2021, the day after the far-right Trumpists violently stormed the Capitol in a bid to get him re-elected in contravention of the Electoral College outcome that legally and fairly gave Joe Biden the victory.
Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts could be reinstated in early 2023, right on time for him to potentially run for the GOP nomination for President in 2024 to regain his seat that he lost fair and square in 2020 to Biden and spew out incitements of hatred and misinformation on the platforms if he is reinstated… unless he is imprisoned before then.
Donie O’Sullivan at CNN Business: .
Facebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least January 7th, 2023 -- two years from when he was initially suspended.
Facebook said it will then assess the circumstances to see if he should be allowed back on.
The company
said in a post Friday that once the two years is up, it "will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest. If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to re-evaluate until that risk has receded."
Facebook is suspending Donald Trump’s account for two years, the company has announced in a highly anticipated decision that follows months of debate over the former president’s future on social media.
“Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr Trump’s suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols. We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs, said in a statement on Friday.
Friday’s decision comes just weeks after input from the Facebook oversight board – an independent advisory committee of academics, media figures and former politicians – who recommended in early May that Trump’s account not be reinstated.
Todd Spangler at Variety:
Facebook said Donald Trump’s accounts on the social giant’s platforms will be suspended for two years — until January 2023 — and will only be reinstated “if conditions permit.”
The company’s announcement comes after the independent Facebook Oversight Board upheld the company’s suspension of the ex-U.S. president after Trump praised people engaged in violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 but required Facebook to review is decision and policies.