{"id":469656,"date":"2021-05-04T05:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=469656"},"modified":"2021-05-04T05:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T09:05:47","slug":"facebooks-oversight-board-will-announce-ruling-on-trump-ban-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebooks-oversight-board-will-announce-ruling-on-trump-ban-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Oversight Board Will Announce Ruling on Trump Ban Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebooks-oversight-board-will-announce-ruling-on-trump-ban-wednesday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=469656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3863.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s Oversight Board will announce early Wednesday whether it will let former president Donald Trump back on the platform, months after banning him &#8220;indefinitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the decision to ban Trump after the January 6 Capitol riots, citing the then-president&#8217;s &#8220;decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters.&#8221; The Oversight Board, a formally independent body with whose decisions Facebook has pledged to comply, is expected to deliver its verdict around 9:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The widely anticipated decision will set a precedent for Facebook&#8217;s moderation of political speech. Republicans have criticized the platform for censoring conservative voices, and world leaders worried that banning Trump would endanger public discourse. German chancellor Angela Merkel said Trump&#8217;s bans from social media were &#8220;problematic&#8221; and emphasized that &#8220;the right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The board&#8217;s decision may have a cascading effect on other platforms that banned Trump, such as Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat. Oversight Board cochair and former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2021\/02\/11\/conversation-with-oversight-board-facebook-s-trump-ban-and-future-of-online-speech-event-7540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> she hopes the Oversight Board will be so successful that other social media platforms use its decisions to guide their own content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to issuing a binding decision on this specific case, the board will also make nonbinding suggestions for broader policies on public figures. Facebook has adjusted its rules in the past based on Trump&#8217;s behavior. In 2015, after keeping up a video from then-candidate Trump calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, Facebook announced a &#8220;newsworthiness&#8221; exception, which allows for posts that violate its policies if they have news value.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/facebook-oversight-board-member-warns-against-censoring-misinformation\/\">interview<\/a> with the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, board member Michael McConnell avoided speaking specifically about the Trump case but emphasized that one of the board&#8217;s major goals is to outline clear rules for moderating the speech of public figures.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers have expressed concern that, even if the board rules that Trump must be allowed back on the platform, Facebook will use other tools to shape political discourse. In a recent interview, tech mogul and Facebook board member Peter Thiel warned that &#8220;the real problem&#8221; is the &#8220;downranking&#8221; of content Facebook finds objectionable, so that it is posted but users see it less often.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Trump nor Facebook has any way to appeal the board&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s Oversight Board will announce early Wednesday whether it will let former president Donald Trump back on the platform, months after banning him &#8220;indefinitely.&#8221; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277256,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3863.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook\u2019s Oversight Board Will Announce Ruling on Trump Ban Wednesday","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3863.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook\u2019s Oversight Board Will Announce Ruling on Trump Ban Wednesday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}