The oversight board will announce a decision around 9 AM ET.
Trump was suspended indefinitely following the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. He was impeached for a second time for inciting the unrest, but acquitted by the Senate. Other social media platforms followed in restricting Trump’s accounts, and he was banned outright from Twitter. The Oversight Board was set up to handle appeals of company decisions. Facebook referred its decision to the board on Jan. 21, but kept Trump’s suspension in place in the meantime.
“We believe our decision was necessary and right,” wrote Facebook’s Nick Clegg. “Given its significance, we think it is important for the board to review it and reach an independent judgment on whether it should be upheld.” “We have taken the view that in open democracies people have a right to hear what their politicians are saying — the good, the bad and the ugly — so that they can be held to account,” Clegg wrote. “But it has never meant that politicians can say whatever they like. They remain subject to our policies banning the use of our platform to incite violence. It is these policies that were enforced when we took the decision to suspend President Trump’s access.
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