President Trump’s response to yesterday’s announcement of Facebook’s decision.
[AnNahar] Facebook has banned former U.S. president Donald Trump...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
for two years, saying he deserved the maximum punishment for violating platform rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol.
In updating its policies, Facebook also said it will no longer give politicians blanket immunity for deceptive or abusive content based on their comments being newsworthy.
At the end of Trump's two-year ban, Facebook will enlist experts to assess whether his activity on the platform still threatens public safety, according to Clegg.
- TRUMP DENOUNCES 'INSULT' -
Trump said in a statement the ban was an "insult" to voters, renewing his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
"They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing," Trump said.
Trump also took a jab at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated..., who attended a White House dinner with the former president in 2019.
"Next time I'm in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife," Trump said. "It will be all business!"
Zuckerberg has long maintained private companies should not be the arbiters of truth.
"American democracy doesn't belong to Silicon Valley; it belongs to the American people," Clegg said in a podcast with Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution.
"And it's the politicians and politicians of this country who in the end have to govern the rules that prevail."
- IMMUNITY REVOKED -
As part of its new policy, Facebook will step back from its "newsworthiness" exception which allowed false information from Trump and others to circulate.
Facebook will begin publishing the "rare instances" in which offending posts are tolerated, and will not treat content posted by politicians differently from content posted by anyone else, according to Clegg.
