EXPLAINER: Will Donald Trump return to Facebook?

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Former President Donald Trump will soon find out whether he gets to return to Facebook, as the social network’s Oversight Board is set to announce its ruling. Here’s how the process works and what might happen after Wednesday’s announcement.

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. Former President Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, when the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board plans to announce its ruling in the case involving the former president.

Trump’s Facebook account was suspended for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots. After years of treating Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook owns, silenced his accounts on Jan. 7, saying at the time he’d be suspended “at least” through the end of his presidency on Jan. 20.

The first four board members were directly chosen by Facebook. Those four then worked with Facebook to select additional members. Facebook pays each board members a salary through an “independent trust.” Trump had remained on Facebook because the company believes “the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech.” Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page on Jan. 7 explaining the company’s decision to suspend Trump.

 

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Please Lord, don’t let it happen. The world does not need more of Trump’s vitriol and whining.

He will to ask all his drone followers for money to pay for his upcoming legal fees

More important can I block him?

And of course the media will cover it ad nauseam, making sure he is once again in our collective face

Why does he need to return to Facebook? Wasn’t it announced recently that he and his “team” were preparing to announce their own social media platform? Hmmm... He’s just probably still busy with his tax audit...

He needs to go to jail, do not pass GO or collect $100.

Facebook...do NOT support a leader of American terrorism.

How could such a thing be approved, given the clear damage he has done to the country?

So FB can be known as the platform that peddles the Big Lie?

Just don't be posting his sh*t on twitter

Lol riveting

If he does!! I'm gone! F FB🤬

Gross

If they allow him back after the deadly insurrection he caused January 6, they are literally letting him get away with murder. And Zuckerberg is an accomplice!

He will break the rules within a month, and be booted again.

Social media is better off without him

Oh oh media...an orgasm happening. The man will be back.

Oh please no.

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