{"id":487844,"date":"2021-05-09T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487844"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:18","slug":"survey-nearly-half-of-voters-oppose-facebooks-trump-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survey-nearly-half-of-voters-oppose-facebooks-trump-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Nearly Half Of Voters Oppose Facebook\u2019s Trump Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fsurvey-nearly-half-of-voters-oppose-facebooks-trump-ban%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=487844&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\/05\/GettyImages-619026874-scaled-e1620503695751.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Nearly half of U.S. voters oppose Facebook\u2019s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump from the social media platform, according to a survey release Friday by Rasmussen Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/media\/most_voters_want_to_end_protection_for_social_media_companies_after_trump_facebook_ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> 48% of voters surveyed oppose Facebook\u2019s decision to make Trump\u2019s ban from the platform permanent, while 41% favored banning Trump from Facebook, and 10% of respondents were unsure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.3\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">48% of voters oppose Facebook\u2019s decision to make Trump\u2019s ban from the platform permanent . . .<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E73XFzC3PY\">https:\/\/t.co\/E73XFzC3PY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OPBsixD2wl\">pic.twitter.com\/OPBsixD2wl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1390743235346190341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s oversight board <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/05\/facebook-capitol-riot-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upheld<\/a> the company\u2019s decision to ban Trump early last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board found that, in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible,\u201d the board said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oversightboard.com\/decision\/FB-691QAMHJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents\u2019 views on the social media company\u2019s decision to ban the former president fell largely across party lines, with 62% of Democrats favoring banning Trump permanently from Facebook, while 67% of Republicans opposed the ban, according to Rasmussen Reports.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted among 850 likely U.S. voters between May 5-6, with a +\/- 3 percent margin of error at a 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n<p>A similar Rasmussen Reports survey found that 59% of likely U.S. voters believed operators of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are politically biased in the decisions they make. That survey found 26% of respondents disagreed and said that the social media companies edit their content in a fair and balanced way.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump released a statement Wednesday, saying, \u201cWhat Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/05\/donald-trump-big-tech-facebook-disgrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018An Embarrassment To Our Country\u2019: Trump Flames Big Tech Just Hours Before His Facebook Ban Was Upheld)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of U.S. voters oppose Facebook\u2019s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump from the social media platform, according to a survey release Friday by Rasmussen Reports.Rasmussen found 48% &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277584,"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\/05\/GettyImages-619026874-scaled-e1620503695751.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Survey: Nearly Half Of Voters Oppose Facebook\u2019s Trump Ban","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-619026874-scaled-e1620503695751.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Survey: Nearly Half Of Voters Oppose Facebook\u2019s Trump Ban","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487844","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=487844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}