Facebook Suspends Trump for 2 Years

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Facebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump is suspended from its platform for two years.

โ€œWe are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year,โ€ Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs for Facebook, said in a blog post.

Facebookโ€™s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent entity that is empowered to overrule the technology giant, last month upheld Facebookโ€™s suspension of Trump.

But it also said the California-based company inappropriately did not list a defined time period for which Trump was suspended.

โ€œIt is not permissible for Facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period, with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored,โ€ the board said.

The announcement Friday is in response to the boardโ€™s decision, Clegg said.

โ€œWe are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr. Trumpโ€™s accounts. Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trumpโ€™s suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols,โ€ he said.

When two years elapses, Facebook plans to review with experts whether the โ€œrisk to public safety has receded.โ€

If the risk is still present, the suspension will be extended. If it is not, the company is setting in place โ€œa strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered if Mr. Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts,โ€ Clegg added.

Trump said in a two-sentence statement that Facebookโ€™s decision โ€œis an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election.โ€

โ€œThey shouldnโ€™t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing and ultimately we will win,โ€ he added.

BY ZACHARY STIEBER

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