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Published: February 4, 2021

Top Facebook exec suggests gov’t should rule on banning politicians like Trump from platform

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February 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In a recently leaked video of an internal meeting at Facebook, a top executive said that ‘ideally’ governments should be ruling on issues such as the indefinite suspension of former President Donald Trump from the platform.

The video in question was part of a larger drop recently released by Project Veritas and includes a statement by the former U.K. deputy prime minister, and now the media giant’s vice-president for Global Affairs and Communications, Sir Nick Clegg.

Referencing criticism from world leaders of Facebook’s decision to indefinitely suspend Trump from the platform, Clegg, a past leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain, said: “Ideally, we wouldn’t be making these decisions on our own. We would be taking these decisions in line with and in conformity with democratically agreed rules and principles. And at the moment, those democratically agreed rules don’t exist. We still have to make decisions in real-time.” 

Commenting on the leaked videos, conservative media analyst Mark Dice added that Facebook is eager to work with governments to create rules governing online censorship, in order that their own policies will be

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