June 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Former President Donald Trump berated Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg Friday for the company’s announcement that Trump would remain banned from the platform for two years, calling it an “insult” to his supporters. He also hinted at another run for the White House.
Earlier Friday, Facebook’s Vice President for Global Affairs Nick Clegg announced “new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases” such as Trump’s, starting with Trump’s suspension from the platform, which will remain in effect until January 7, 2023, two years after his suspension began at the beginning of this year.
Facebook used the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building, which Democrats and their allies tried to argue was “incited” by Trump, as a pretext to ban Trump from the platform. The company’s “Oversight Board” announced last month it was upholding Facebook’s decision, while at the same time calling its indefinite nature “standardless,” and calling on the company to “review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform” within six months.
Citing the Oversight Board (an “independent” body set up by Facebook itself last year)
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