Former U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed his suspension
by social media giant Facebook, both on Facebook and Instagram.
Trump lodged the appeal with Facebook Oversight Board,
co-chaired by former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
But, his appeal will not be considered, until about 10 weeks
time.
Trump was suspended indefinitely by Facebook in January,
following his serial breaching of the platform’s rules. Twitter banned him
permanently.
He was then posting falsehoods that he won the 3 November
2020 election by a landslide, whereas the truth was that he lost by a
landslide.
Some of the posts also supported the insurrectionists who
stormed the U.S. Capitol on 6 January, for which he was impeached by the House
of Representatives.
“We can confirm that a user statement has been received in
the case before the Oversight Board concerning President Trump’s Facebook and
Instagram accounts,” a spokesperson for the Oversight Board said in a
statement.
‘We have decided that we are going to take this case,’
Thorning-Schmidt said on Tuesday in an interview with UK’s Channel Four.
‘It’s a very high profile case but that is exactly why the
Oversight Board was created in the first place.’
She added that they are inviting public feedback on the case
for them to look at and they have ‘already received public comments in the
thousands and thousands’.
‘One thing I think is quite good about how we deal with
these things is not only does Facebook have a statement about why they did what
they did. The user can also put in their statement about their opinion,’ she
said.
‘A third thing that can happen is that we are open for public
comments about this particular case. We’ve already received public comments in
the thousands and thousands.’
Facebook announced in January that it asked the Oversight
Board to review its decision to suspend Trump on Jan. 7, the day after a group
of the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol.
The Trump ban is the most consequential case yet for the
Oversight Board, carrying far-reaching political implications for the nation.
Facebook’s Oversight Board launched last year to review the toughest calls the company makes. It is supposed to function as an independent entity but gets financial backing and technical support from Facebook.
The Oversight Board has 90 days to make a decision, but a
ruling is expected more quickly. Its decision is binding and cannot be
overruled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg or any other Facebook executive.
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