The Facebook Oversight Board Rules on Trump
The wait is over. Four months after Facebook indefinitely banned Donald Trump from its platform following the Capitol riot, the Facebook Oversight Board\u2014the platform\u2019s self-appointed quasi-court\u2014has weighed in on whether or not it was permissible for Facebook to do so. And the answer is ... complicated. Mark Zuckerberg can still keep Trump off his platform for now, but the board says that Facebook must review its policies and make a final decision about the former president\u2019s fate within six months.
To discuss the decision, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes hosted a special episode of Arbiters of Truth, our Lawfare Podcast miniseries on our online information ecosystem. He sat down with Evelyn Douek, Quinta Jurecic and Lawfare Deputy Managing Editor Jacob Schulz for a conversation about the Oversight Board\u2019s ruling. Did the Oversight Board make the right call? What might the mood be like in Facebook headquarters right now? What about Twitter\u2019s? And is this decision really the Oversight Board\u2019s Marbury v. Madison moment?
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