Two weeks ago, Facebook indefinitely suspended former President Donald Trump from its social network and Instagram, after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the risks of allowing Trump to keep using the social network were “too great.”
Now, Facebook wants its newly formed independent oversight board to weigh in and decide whether it should reinstate Trump.
“We believe we took the right decision. We think it was entirely justified by the unprecedented circumstances on that day,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications, told NPR’s All Things Considered.
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