The ruling set for release at 1300 GMT Wednesday is likely to be a defining moment for the leading social network's so-called "supreme court" envisioned by company founder Mark Zuckerberg to make thorny decisions on what to allow or remove from Facebook.
"This is significant for the global precedent it will set. If they uphold the ruling I think you will see more robust enforcement around the world." The US leader was banned permanently by Facebook the following day, and he was taken off other platforms including Twitter and YouTube.Some analysts said Facebook and other social networks should have acted on Trump sooner, after years of giving him an exemption from rules on hateful content because of his "newsworthiness" as a political leader.
Facebook itself referred the case to the oversight board, in line with its position that company executives should not be in the position of making key decisions on content and political speech. The panel has received more than 9,000 comments in the case. Jameel Jaffer, executive director of Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, said the issue is more complex than simply evaluating Trump's comments.
In its submission to the board, the institute said Facebook should conduct "an independent study of how its platform may have contributed to the events of January 6" and that the panel should rule on Trump "only after the company has provided it with the results of that study."
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